PandemicSoul Quotelog

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

-Painting as a Pastime

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Don Juan

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Anyone who feels that the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst just might trump those of a child with full-body burns has had his ethical intuitions blinded by religious metaphysics.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.