Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
MermaidDiagram Comment.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
