“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Zdroj: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Zdroj: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Zdroj: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
“But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.”
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
Varianta: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Zdroj: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Zdroj: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 48
Kontext: The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives: empty settings. How easy to chase after settings, and forget diamonds! The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
“You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die.”
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
Kontext: You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Kontext: You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.
“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit”
A Gift of Wings (1974)
Zdroj: https://books.google.de/books?id=InUpHgnif58C&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=An+old+maxim+says+that+a+professional+writer+is+an+amateur+who+didn%27t+quit&source=bl&ots=RpDceaKvsx&sig=ACfU3U0n2qLBUs3E_5CDTfLDvLPmk3tB7A&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB16L5_5jyAhWlgf0HHeQyD2oQ6AF6BAgREAM#v=onepage&q=An%20old%20maxim%20says%20that%20a%20professional%20writer%20is%20an%20amateur%20who%20didn't%20quit&f=false A Gift of Wings
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
Zdroj: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Varianta: All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
Zdroj: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story