💬 Quotes

"It is not a giant's job to be eating human beans. It is a giant's job to be helping them."

"Man is not a fixed and enduring created being, but a trial and a transition; he is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit."

"Most people will not swim before they are able to swim."

"For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfortable optimism, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."

"The life of every man is a path toward himself, the attempt at a path, the intimation of a path."

"You have a longing to be rid of your personality, to be rid of the weary, tortured little self and to be at rest in the vastness of that which is not self."

"One day you will learn to play the game. One day you will learn to laugh."

"I am not a hero. I am a monster who is capable of love, but I am still a monster."

"You are my heart, my soul, my breath. Without you, I am nothing but a hollow shell waiting for the sun to rise."

"Duty is a heavy cloak to wear, but it is the only thing that keeps us from being just another beast in the night."

"Death is not the end. It is merely the transition to a place where the pain of this world cannot reach you."

"She was the light in the dark, the reason I finally dared to believe that my curse could be redeemed."

"The past is a graveyard, but if you look closely, you can find the flowers that grew from the sorrow."

"I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of what I was going to do."

"I looked now upon the world as a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no expectation to hope for, and indeed no desires for."

"All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

"It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their circumstances with those that are worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to their own disadvantage."

"I began to comfort myself with the kind of comfort that had been forced upon me: that I was a king and lord of all this country indefeasibly."

"There is a secret power and influence in the Spirit of God, we know not how, to bring the thoughts of men to pass, even against the most distant and improbable expectations."

"We have to be free, or the Republic of Heaven will fail. There is no other way."