Danidelion’s most recent Quotables

"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over; the wounds is closed and healed, over and done with."

Everyone says that love hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts, rejection hurts, losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love; but in reality, love is the only thing that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

One man’s magic is another man’s engineering. Supernatural is a null word.

Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is is kill him.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.

One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

If you happen to be one of the fretful who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.