My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He’s always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn’t always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.
What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
