It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.
Dean Koontz, Brother Odd.
“His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.”
“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”
“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”
“A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore co...”
“Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”
“Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.”
“I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...”
“Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.”
“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Corrie ten Boom”
“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.”
“Past tears are present strength.”