The List of Seven

.....the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Remove the sentiment of love and discover how dangerously fragile are rendered one’s ties to the familiar world. How seductive the possibility of utter change.

Perhaps that was the genuine siren’s song of legend, the temptation to jettison the ballast of the past and rush weightless and unencumbered down a dark tunnel of rebirth. Perhaps that was the soul’s destiny regardless.

But as he stood at the brink of that decision, into the vacuum created by that shimmering lure of escape returned his primal conviction that when confronted by authentic evil—and he felt certain this is what pursued him—to move off one’s ground without a fight was an equal if not greater evil. An evil of failure and cowardice. One might pass a lifetime, or an endless string of lifetimes, without ever facing such an unequivocal assault as this against the covenant of what a man holds true about himself. Better to lose your life in defense of its sanctity than to turn tail and live out what remained of one’s allotted days as a beaten dog. It was a hollow refuge that gave no shelter from self-loathing.

No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency

Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it’s a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

We’re guests who no longer respect the house they inhabit, but rather treat it as a rough clay to be molded to our basest use.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one’s reaction to circumstance.