"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
- Seneca
"...in some classic christian doctrines, the world is to be despised; life is to be redeemed; and the hereafter is heaven, where our rewards come. And if you affirm that which you deplore, as you say, you're affirming the world which is our eternity of the moment."
"Eternity isn't some later time; eternity isn't a long time; eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out ... THIS IS IT ... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life."
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it is in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol"
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
