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I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice  (To Be Quotes) I'd be looking at some stony sculpture Michelangelo would have killed his grandmother to be able to do, and thinking, I don't know that color, that color doesn't exist, but like wow  (To Be Quotes) Madame de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystallized spirituality  (To Be Quotes) You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam  (To Be Quotes) Mormonism, it seems to me, is - objectively - just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas  (To Be Quotes) ... like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?  (To Be Quotes) The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule  (To Be Quotes) She can't just be a face, a body; there has to be more than that, some kind of connection. And I can't connect, don't want to connect, with anyone  (To Be Quotes) But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers  (To Be Quotes) What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives  (To Be Quotes) No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done  (To Be Quotes) He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king  (To Be Quotes) Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements  (To Be Quotes) Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical - feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into alignment with others  (To Be Quotes) Anyway, what does mad mean exactly? Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somewhat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?  (To Be Quotes) At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage  (To Be Quotes) Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead  (To Be Quotes) And maybe that was how it was supposed to be... Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly  (To Be Quotes) He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid  (To Be Quotes) Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?  (To Be Quotes) The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation  (To Be Quotes) The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism  (To Be Quotes) Criticizing a person's ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not  (To Be Quotes) Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is... Being afraid... and going on  (To Be Quotes) I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion - and where it isn't, that's where my work lies  (To Be Quotes) It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world  (To Be Quotes) If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing  (To Be Quotes) I was always a little girl, lost in Oz, looking for a way to believe that there was no place like home …  (To Be Quotes) Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about  (To Be Quotes) You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind  (To Be Quotes)
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