Selux Quotes & Sayings

God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live on for ever through the silver screen. Allen answered that 'I'd rather live on in my apartment. — Yuval Noah Harari

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning. — Pentti Linkola

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. — Amin Maalouf

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth.
What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth. — Rumi

The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers. — Tracy Kidder

You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to stare at me from his deep-set eyes. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you."

"p. 94 Nighteyes to Fitz — Robin Hobb

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. — Henry Louis Gates

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five? — Martin Seligman

This doesn't mean you're getting a discount."
Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then."
Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!"
Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not. — Ilona Andrews

I am still fully committed to male-female equality. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

Men fuck up, you know. Except for Damien," she adds with a completely straight face. "He's perfectly perfect." She manages to hold it together for a minute, and then we both laugh. — J. Kenner