It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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