laurenreilly’s most recent Quotables

"Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce"

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

This is more a story about blogging than about photography. It's about a generation that's so caught up in itself that everything it says it thinks is significant, even though it's not saying anything at all.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Always move towards pain when making art.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

It's a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I’m only one person and I can’t do everything. But I can do something. I will not let the fact that I can’t do everything prevent me from doing what I can.

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.