“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”— Richard Brautigan, articles.baltimoresun.com
“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com
“In principle I believe that every human being on this planet has at least one good story to tell his neighbor.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org
“It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“I will admit there’s a certain degree of giving a f**k that goes into not giving a f**k. By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.”— John Green and David Levithan, amazon.com
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”— Andre Dubus, facebook.com
“God is in your bones. That's why we are here. To realize the God that lives in our bones, as us.”— Jeff Brown, facebook.com
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but…”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.”— John Green, amazon.com
“It's funny making a flat earth beliver angry, but if you push them over the edge then you're only proving them right.”— spbslinky, reddit.com
“The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com