philosophical

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one__ worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

You're an unusual person," she said."Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so__o prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become__roadened in his outlook?

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be _ tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today would be the day; she listened for every sound, gave sudden starts, was surprised when nothing happened; and then, sadder with each succeeding sunset, she longed for tomorrow.

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you__e awake.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.

What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human shape and in the emptiness indicated how once they were filled and animated; how once hands were busy with hooks and buttons; how once the looking-glass had held a face; had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned, a hand flashed, the door opened, in came children rushing and tumbling; and went out again. Now, day after day, light turned, like a flower reflected in water, its sharp image on the wall opposite. Only the shadows of the trees, flourishing in the wind, made obeisance on the wall, and for a moment darkened the pool in which light reflected itself; or birds, flying, made a soft spot flutter slowly across the bedroom floor.