Thursday, October 26, 2006

Failure

It is possible to believe in something and fail to live up to it—Wilson (House, M.D.)

Monday, October 16, 2006

Divinity?

There's just one main problem with the following quote...see if you can spot it...

Peoples, driven by their divine nature, intrinsically seek good, virtue, perfection and beauty. Relying on our peoples, we can take giant steps toward reform and pave the road for human perfection. Whether we like it or not, justice, peace and virtue will sooner or later prevail in the world with the will of Almighty God.—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran in his address to the U.N.)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Safe

I recently finished reading C.S. Lewis' book The Four Loves and this quote is the most amazing and astounding he ever pinned.

Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “careful! This might lead you to suffering.” There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. They only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Change, Pt.2

What do you think about...

People don’t change—at least not in any real way that matters—House M.D.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

amore

A friend's recent plunge into the mysterious and murky waters of being in love had me thinking...

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind—Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Monday, October 02, 2006

Basis

If love is based on lies does that mean it’s not a real feeling…doesn’t bring the same pleasure?—Wilson (House, M.D.)