“Trouble is, you’re caught up in the fringes of politics, lad, even if it’s none of your doing, and politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.”
Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
Quotes
A foggy mire
Conflict
We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.
Thomas Sowell
Doubt vs. Certainty
But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change.
Jerry Saltz, How to be an Artist
Forgive without forgetting
…forgiveness doesn’t involve forgetting, nor does it require reconciliation or making up.
R. Scott Hurd, Forgiveness: A Catholic Approach
The mind abhors a vacuum
Where there is an emptiness, the mind will obligingly fill it up.
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments