Neil Gaiman · 128 pages
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“All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing."
Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly.
'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?'
'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“Take what you have learned, and move on.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly.
"Live," said the monk.
"You shall be revenged," said the fox. "The onmyoji who did this to you will learn what it means to take something from a fox.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
“Silently evolving here was the attitude before God that Paul explored in his theology of justification: These are people who do not flaunt their achievements before God. They do not stride into God’s presence as if they were partners able to engage with him on an equal footing; they do not lay claim to a reward for what they have done. These are people who know that their poverty also has an interior dimension; they are lovers who simply want to let God bestow his gifts upon them and thereby to live in inner harmony with God’s nature and word. The saying of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux about one day standing before God with empty hands, and holding them open to him, describes the spirit of these poor ones of God: They come with empty hands; not with hands that grasp and clutch, but with hands that open and give and thus are ready to receive from God’s bountiful goodness. Because this is the case, there is no opposition between Matthew, who speaks of the poor in spirit, and Luke, in whose Gospel the Lord addresses the “poor” without further qualification.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, quote from Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
“the lobby pay phone, and called her. She answered on the second ring.”
― Robert Crais, quote from L.A. Requiem
“Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny.… To work out our identity in God.”
― Thomas Merton, quote from New Seeds of Contemplation
“يقول إلكسندر كوجيف في تفسيره لهيجل :
"-إن كانت السيادة الخاملة طريقاً مسدوداً، فإن العبودية النشيطة هي مصدر كل تقدم إنساني و اجتماعي و تاريخي، و ما التاريخ إلا تاريخ العبد النشيط”
― Francis Fukuyama, quote from The End of History and the Last Man
“There's plenty about my life I can't change. Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big. Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day.”
― Paul Fleischman, quote from Seedfolks
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