Remorse Is A Terrible Thing To Bear, Pam, One Of The Worst Of All Punishments In This Life. To Wish Undone Something You Have Done, To Wish You Could Look Back On Kindness To Someone You Love, Instead Of On Unkindness - That Is A Very Terrible Thing.
It Is Only After One Is In Trouble That One Realizes How Little Sympathy And Kindness There Are In The World.
Nothing Happened. And Everything Did. Your Whole Life You Can Be Told Something Is Wrong And So You Believe It. Why Should You Question It? But Then Slowly Seeds Are Planted Inside Of You, One By One, By A Touch Or A Look Or A Day Skateboarding In A Park, And They Start To Burst Out Of Old Hulls Shells And They Start To Sprout. And Pretty Soon There Are So Many Of Them. They Are Named Love And Trust And Kindness And Joy And Desire And Wonder And Spirit And Soulmate. They Grow Into A Garden So Dense And Thick That It Starts To Invade Your Brain Where The Old Things You Were Once Told Are Dying.
The Essence Of Theosophy Is The Perfect Harmonizing Of The Divine With The Human In Man, The Adjustment Of His God-like Qualities And Aspirations, And Their Sway Over The Terrestrial Or Animal Passions In Him. Kindness, Absence Of Every Ill Feeling Or Selfishness, Charity, Goodwill To All Beings, And Perfect Justice To Others As To Oneself, Are Its Chief Features. He Who Teaches Theosophy Preaches The Gospel Of Goodwill; And The Converse Of This Is True Also — He Who Preaches The Gospel Of Goodwill, Teaches Theosophy.
Nice Guys May Appear To Finish Last, But Usually They Are Running A Different Race.
I'm Not A Vegetarian. Now, Don't Get Me Wrong - I Like Animals. And I Don't Think It's Just Fine To Industrialize Their Production And To Churn Them Out Like They Were Wrenches. But There's No Way To Treat Animals Well When You're Killing 10 Billion Of Them A Year. Kindness Might Just Be A Bit Of A Red Herring. Let's Get The Numbers Of Animals We're Killing For Eating Down, And Then We'll Worry About Being Nice To The Ones That Are Left.
Notoriety, N. The Fame Of One's Competitor For Public Honors. The Kind Of Renown Most Accessible And Acceptable To Mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder Leading To The Vaudeville Stage, With Angels Ascending And Descending.
Bait, N. A Preparation That Renders The Hook More Palatable. The Best Kind Is Beauty.
Entertainment, N. Any Kind Of Amusement Whose Inroads Stop Short Of Death By Injection.
