Killing time murders opportunities.

A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbours.

- R. Whately

The strangest thing about humans is the way  they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone.  They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come togther only to reproduce ( Read more... )

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

He had evaded responsibility for his stresses and disasters by putting his faith in over-ruling gods; he had clung to arbitrary rules of conduct against all reason, and he had persecuted and sought to destroy every sceptical thinker, every heretical experimentalist in conduct, who disturbed the equanimity of his submission ( Read more... )

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely.  But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.  Food only looks good to a hungry man.

"You just don't want to get your hopes up.  You just don't want to admit that there's a chance that you might live, because then you'd start to fear death ( Read more... )