Able - Quotes
If you can`t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years.
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Life`s greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn`t know.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
- What makes the sky change colour when the sun reaches the horizon?
- If we tried to explain everything, we wouldn`t be able to live.
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you.
If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don`t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.