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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute… Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter is over, and come what will, I am satisfied.
I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
To be happy, to possess eternal life, to be in God, to be saved — all these are the same. All alike mean the solution of the problem, the aim of existence. And happiness is cumulative, as misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever more profounder depth of understanding, a possession constantly more intense and more spiritual with the joy of heaven — this is happiness. Happiness has no limits.
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
There are two basic duties for man in this life: one is to serve nature and the other is to find God.
For God grants wisdom from His mouth together with perception and practical wisdom, and stores up help for the righteous.
I am as free as Nature first made man, ere the base laws of servitude began.
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so them, for this is the law and the prophets.
An individual drop can be merged with the ocean, and still remain meaningful. He has found his “place.”
Then he realized, I indeed, I am this creation, for I have poured it forth from myself. In that way he became this creation. Verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.
Like madness is the glory of this life.
Give me understanding, and I shall live.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
No negative state has the right to rule over your life.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
What matters is what we love, for that is what determines the true and final course of our lives.
Yesterday, I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Though slowly and with pain, the objects of our affections change, as the objects of thought do. There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man, and make his happiness dependent on a person or persons. But in health, the mind is presently seen again, its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights, and the warm loves and fears that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character, and blend with God, to attain their own perfection. But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end. That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations, must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on forever.
