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Now, however, he had learned to see the great, the eternal, the infinite in everything, and therefore, in order to look at it, to enjoy his contemplation of it, he naturally discarded teh telescope through which he had till then been gazing over the heads of men, and joyfully surveyed the ever-changeing, eternally great, unfathomable, and infinite life around him. And the closer he looked, the happier and more seren he was. The awful question: What for? a simple answer was now always ready in his soul: Because there is a God, that God without whose will not one hair of a man's head falls.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C.S. Lewis

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
C.S. Lewis

“The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
Albert Einstein

“One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.”
John C. Maxwell

“How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?” Paul asked. “There’s a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they’d bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate.
Frank Herbert

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Los grandes líderes buscan y encuentran a líderes en potencia, y los transforman en buenos líderes.”
John C. Maxwell

“Is that the name you wish, Muad’Dib?” Stilgar asked. “I am an Atreides,” Paul whispered, and then louder: “It’s not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad’Dib?” “You are Paul-Muad’Dib,” Stilgar said.
Frank Herbert

“It shall be done for you as you have believed. MATTHEW 8:13”
Joyce Meyer

“Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.”
Billy Graham

“The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.”
Leo Tolstoy

“It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.”
Nelson Mandela

“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”
Joyce Meyer

“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”
Albert Einstein

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