“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.”
“If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.”
“If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.”
“Do you want help?"
"No."
"Do you need help?”
“Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.”
“A Two-Onebee droid doesn’t need to contract a disease to diagnose and treat it.”
“Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.”
“I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.”
“This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.”
“selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.”
“Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.”
“All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.”
“She strode up some steps and banged on the door. "Now you play nice or I'll put you in the dog house."(Alannah)
"Woof."(Christopher Beckett)”
“The wind sounds like people crying.”
“And history has proven over and over again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.”
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