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Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.
Stephen Jay Gould
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
At age 17, she was rejected from college.
At age 25, her mother died from disease.
At age 26, she suffered a miscarriage.
At age 27, she got married.
Her husband abused her. Despite this, her daughter was born.
At age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe depression.
At age 29, she was a single mother living on welfare.
At age 30, she didn’t want to be on this earth.
But, she directed all her passion into doing the one thing she could do better than anyone else.
And that was writing.
At age 31, she finally published her first book.
At age 35, she had released 4 books, and was named Author of the Year.
At age 42, she sold 11 million copies of her new book, on the first day of release.
This woman is J.K. Rowling. Remember how she considered suicide at age 30?
Today, Harry Potter is a global brand worth more than $15 billion dollars.
Never give up. Believe in yourself. Be passionate. Work hard. It’s never too late.
St. Michael’s Shield of Truth Prayer
St. Michael, you are our defender and safeguard against evil. Place your Shield of Truth over us and defend us in the battle which Satan wages against truth. Help us to seethe righteous path of Holy Love. Clarify our choices between good and evil by placing us always behind your Shield of Truth.
Amen.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
George Carlin
Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and mankind, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
Soren kierkegaard
The literal meaning of life is wahtever you are doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
Albert Camus
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation – creation – there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.
Mark Twain
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
George Bernard Shaw
Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them.
Charles Bukowski
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T.S. Eliot
Humans are creatures, who spent their lives trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
Albert Camus
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.
Mark Twain
A noble heart will refuse happiness built on misfortune of others.
Saadi
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For all evils, there are two remedies – time and silence.
Alexandre Dumas
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Thomas Paine
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
Scottish Proverb
If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Aesop
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Albert Einstein
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
Mason Cooley
No one’s fate is of any interest to you except your own.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Sun Tzu
Show respect to people who don’t even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
Dave Willis
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman Macewan
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart
First appearance deceives many.
Phaedrus
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Saying
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
Eric Butterworth
To be continued …
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