Doubt

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life, is akin to choosing immobility as a means of trasportation.
-Yann Martel "Life of Pi"

...Have I chosen "doubt as a philosophy of life"? With so many things, I choose to neither believe nor disbelive; or quite differently, to belive and disbelive. Have I penned myself in with doubt? How would my life be different otherwise? -D'nah

Madness

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
-Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"

Living

Existence is uncomplicated. One foot in front of the other. Eat, sleep, function. Living, truly living, with all the emotion and risk that entails, is hard work. Every risk presents the possibility of both success and failure. Every emotion has a counterbalance. Fear cannot exist without hope, nor hope without fear.

Tami Hoag - Dark Horse

Hyper-vigilance

I realized with fresh horror that new doors of perception were opening up inside. New? Not so. Old doors of perception. The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe. Children see everything their eyes happen upon, hear everything in their ears' range. But if life is the rise of consciousness, then it is also the reduction of input.

Terror is the widening of perspective and perception.

Steven King - The Mist

Answers

There are no answers, only choices.
-Solairs, the movie

A good prayer

Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

Pita from Man on Fire script

One to ponder

A miracle cannot prove what is impossible; it is useful only to confirm what is possible.- Maimonides, "Guide for the Perplexed"

I always wondered what it took to "be good"

To work on oneself, to make clear that which confuses and depresses us, even if it entails the greatest pain--that is what is meant by being good.
- Rahel Levin Varnhagen, "Briefe," 1877