Patrick Easter > Patrick's Quotes

“Be the Helper of my soul, O God, for I walk among many snares. Deliver me from them, O Good One, and save me, for Thou lovest mankind.”
― Anonymous

“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable,”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The wise consider themselves “orphaned,” “widowed,” and “worthless.” Their humility is the source of their strength.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“If I look back on everything I’ve done and think, ‘I couldn’t possibly have done anything differently,’ then what’s the point in doing anything?”
― Robert Kroese, Schrodinger's Gat

“When the path of our life is strewn with flowers, we can hardly save our souls.”   (St. Theophan the Recluse, Guidance in the Spiritual Life, p. 19)”
― Efstratios Papanagiotou, The Inner Restoration of Christianity

“The Christian way is a way of metamorphosis that leads from egoism to Love.”
― Efstratios Papanagiotou, The Inner Restoration of Christianity

“Wealth Is Like Dung, Useful Only When Spread”
― B.K. Froman, Mornings in Two Pan

“But, and here's the thing, a vampire is like a cross between a human and a bedbug. I have to ask myself—what in the world could be sexy about that?”
― Jill Nojack, Riot Girls

“How very learned many a man would be if he knew everything that was in his own books! The”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvâna), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those”
― Epiphanius Wilson, Sacred Books of the East

“Fools follow after vanity. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.”
― Epiphanius Wilson, Sacred Books of the East

“Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust! He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy.”
― Epiphanius Wilson, Sacred Books of the East

“Being known. Our Western world has long emphasized knowledge—factual information and “proof”—over the process of being known by God and others. No wonder, then, that despite all our technological advancements and the proliferation of social media, we are more intra- and interpersonally isolated than ever. Yet it is only when we are known that we are positioned to become conduits of love. And it is love that transforms our minds, makes forgiveness possible, and weaves a community of disparate people into the tapestry of God’s family. Attention.”
― Curt Thompson, Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships

“A creature designed to look before and after finds that to do the latter has gone out of fashion and that to do the former is becoming impossible.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

“As man becomes more immersed in time and material gratifications, belief in the continuum of race fades, and not all the tinkering of sociologists can put homes together again.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

“You got kids who act loony and take drugs left and right. They pretend they hate their parents who gave them everything in the world. These kids grow up, and their kids stick earrings in private places and get tattoos all over their bodies and don’t know whether to act like boys or girls. They think they love everybody. The truth is they love nobody, including themselves.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.”
― Dean Koontz, The Odd Thomas #1-4: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll