Mean - Quotes
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don`t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn`t mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you`re standing on the other side.
Just because you keep something a secret doesn`t mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
Just because you`re an atheist, that doesn`t mean you wouldn`t love for things to have reasons for why they are.
Fireproof doesn`t mean the fire will never come but that when it comes you will be able to withstand it.
Children are knives [...]. They don`t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don`t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
I don`t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn`t mean anything? What then?
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
If the soul`s actions are not controlled by rules, that can only mean the soul acts randomly. On the other hand, where is free will located? If your soul is guided by rules, which in turn guide you, then you have no free will. You are programmed. There is no in between; your life is either random or predetermined.