Archmage Arugal Quotes & Sayings

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things. — Gottfried Leibniz

I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of. — John Arbuthnot

Obstacles? Don't be Stopped by them be Strengthen by them — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation. — Jennifer Dunn

If we reward our children for doing the right things, or discipline for intentionally doing the wrong things, then we might be viewed as doing the right thing. On the other hand, we (or parents) might not fully grasp the right thing - as the "right thing" becomes convoluted in the mix of the time and period, the latest "grand experiment", and other influences of parenthood and childrearing. — H. Kirk Rainer

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry. — John Hagee

When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own. — Mandy Hale

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity — Alexander Waugh

Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries. — Bryant McGill

Creating meaning involves bringing order to the contents of the mind by integrating one's actions into a unified flow experience. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Have you ever noticed that things that don't kill you make you weaker? And great minds don't think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill. - Wally — Scott Adams

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. — Wayne Dyer

Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons
literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331) — Charles Stross

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. — Richard Lovelace