To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning. . . because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.
You've certainly mellowed out. . . you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?
Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?' --Lin If you wanna shoot the general, then you should just SHOOT THE GENERAL!' --Ed
There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight. ~Edward Elric
Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.
It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.