J. M. E. McTaggart quotes

There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.
-- J. M. E. McTaggart

#Single Life #Vices #Unbroken

Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.
-- J. M. E. McTaggart

#Death #Sleep #Progress

....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.
-- J. M. E. McTaggart

#May #Emotion #Harmony

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.