The Eleventh Ring Quotes

“The moment you chose to sacrifice your life was the moment you saved it. Rather funny when you think about it.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“First, you may cause no harm to any living creature. All living things have the sacred life force within them. You will come to understand that the physical form of a creature makes no difference, and their behavior, whether you perceive it as good or bad, makes no difference either.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“The most valuable gifts in life often arrive in very strange packages.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“Every atom, every molecule, and every bouncing marble is exactly where it should be at every moment in time.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“All chaos is order misunderstood.” –Alexander Pope”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“Blindly reaching out for his bottle of Madame Beffy’s Headache Tonic, he knocked over a vase filled with glass marbles. They fell to the floor with a great clatter. As he watched them bouncing and skittering across the floor, he had an unexpected thought. The wild, chaotic path of the marbles was not really chaotic at all. Each marble was precisely following the known laws of physical motion. He was not witnessing chaos, but order and perfection. Each marble was exactly where it should be at every moment in time.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“There’s a clock in my room with two silver hands, Moving so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by. There’s a tree on my street, tall and grand, Growing so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by. Two silver hands won’t slow down, Time is a river, and love is to be found While the time is flying by.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“The universe is old beyond our comprehension.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“She made raspberry pie again but told me not to talk to the tree. She said she didn’t know if it was bad or not and it was best to stay away from things you don’t understand. I don’t want to stay away but I don’t want to be a sneak when Mama said not to.   Clara”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“the universe is infinite in size and infinite in depth. It is made up of dreams within dreams, worlds within worlds, and selves within selves. There are more forces at work here than you can know, but that knowledge is for another day.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“It was overwhelming, and a feeling inside him grew – a palpable, almost physical connection to everything, as if the entire universe was somehow inside him, or his physical body was composed of all the stars and planets and galaxies. He had never before experienced such a sensation. It was a feeling of absolute bliss. When it had passed, he thought, “Perhaps such a feeling as that is something the universe might care about.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“I have no choice. I have loved you always. I can’t let you go. I can’t.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“All things that exist are made solely of energy.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“How marvelous. I do believe there is a glimmer of hope that one day you might become a fine scientist.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“There’s a clock in my room with two silver hands, Moving so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by.   There’s a tree on my street, tall and grand, Growing so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by.   Two silver hands won’t slow down, Time is a river, and love is to be found While the time is flying by.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“If we have more happy memories than sad ones, I believe we are doing quite well in this uncertain world of ours.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“It was overwhelming, and a feeling inside him grew – a palpable, almost physical connection to everything, as if the entire universe was somehow inside him, or his physical body was composed of all the stars and planets and galaxies.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“All the events in my life are tied together by invisible strings.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“Above all else, do not lose hope again.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“I am never wrong, sir. I am a man of science.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“I could sit safely in this chair forever, but where would that get me?”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring