Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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Quote:- Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.
Author:- Denis Parsons Burkitt
Category:- science
Quote:- Western science has been our god. In the variety of its power it has preserved, comforted, healed, warmed, fed and entertained us and we have felt free to criticize and occasionally reject it as men have always rejected their gods, but in the knowledge that, despite our apostasy, this deity, our creature and our slave, would still provide for us; the anaesthetic for the pain, the spare heart, the new lung, the antibiotic, the moving wheels and the moving pictures. The light will always come on when we press the switch and if it doesn’t we can find out why.
The Children of Men
Author:- P.D. James
Category:- science
Quote:- What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Author:- Rachel Held Evans
Category:- poetry
Quote:- What a curious power words have.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Author:- Tadeusz Borowski
Category:- best
Quote:- What a feat to go forward and [backward] at the same time.Astonishing.
Author:- Xilaristw
Category:- hope
Quote:- What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry as Well for the Champion or Open Countrey, as Also for the Woodland or Several, Mixed in Every Moneth, with Houswifery, Over and Besides the Book of Houswifery
Author:- Thomas Tusser
Category:- time
Quote:- What a hope! What an anchor for the soul facing any storm! God reigns supreme, above all. He is in control of everything and nothing happens in this life without His knowledge and eternal purpose. That is dynamite right there.
This Stormy Life
Author:- Paddick Van Zyl
Category:- hope
Quote:- What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
Author:- Arthur Conan Doyle
Category:- hope
Quote:- What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Author:- Aberjhani
Category:- inspiration,philosophy
Quote:- What a man reads pours massive ingredients into his mental factory and the fabric of his life is built from those ingredients.
Author:- Jim Rohn
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.
Cosmos
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
Author:- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- What a pity that life robs the rich of its beauty, and what’s worse, entices them with its ugliness.
Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
Author:- B.S. Murthy
Category:- Life
Quote:- What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.
Girl in Translation
Author:- Jean Kwok
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- What a sad generation. In the olden days. We used to learn from our mistakes. These days you get canceled for your mistakes.
Author:- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Category:- best
Quote:- What a shame it truly is— that some of us have lived our entire lives under the impression that the love we have been searching for was to be found, first and foremost, in anyone but ourselves.
The Strength In Our Scars
Author:- Bianca Sparacino
Category:- poetry
Quote:- What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Author:- Oscar Wilde
Category:- philosophy