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Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt (Destiny carries the willing man; and drags the unwilling)
Seneca, Epistulae Morales XVIII
If God ‘foresaw’ our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line… You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow’s actions in just the same way–because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already ‘NOW’ for Him.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches…Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.
Brian Jacques, The Pearls of Lutra
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
‘That eye is like to this eye’
Said the first eye,
‘But in low place
Not in high place.’
Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Is a faith that is never challenged truly faithful? Is a faith that cannot stand up against arguments a worthwhile faith?
In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family, be completely present. When you are content to simply be yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu, Laozi, 老子
우리들이 가장 잘 알고 있는 것은 우습게도 이제까지 우리들이 한번도 배우지 못했던 것들이다. (The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.)
Korean Proverb, 한국 속담
He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 