My Life Of Pi Quotes by GamingPizzaBoy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam en-us 2017-02-13 19:21:21 UTC 2023-05-28 05:40:52 UTC hello@padlet.com I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/153545471 2017-02-13 19:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/153545471 I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155801246 2017-02-23 16:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155801246 gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155807506 2017-02-23 16:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155807506 I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155810183 2017-02-23 16:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155810183 The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155813403 2017-02-23 16:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155813403 Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy. To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, the quick resolution of Christianity has a dizzying effect. If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour. It is religion as swift as a swallow, as urgent as an ambulance. It turns on a dime, expresses itself in the instant. In a moment you are lost or saved. Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155821383 2017-02-23 17:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155821383 At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155822042 2017-02-23 17:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155822042 If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, "Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go!" -- do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, "With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155833984 2017-02-23 17:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155833984 I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155877589 2017-02-23 19:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155877589 If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155924535 2017-02-23 23:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155924535 I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926038 2017-02-23 23:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926038 gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926576 2017-02-23 23:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926576 Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926735 2017-02-23 23:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926735 gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926837 2017-02-23 23:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155926837 Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey. gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155927071 2017-02-23 23:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155927071 gameingpizzaboy https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155927581 2017-02-23 23:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gameingpizzaboy/4fef8d2xtwam/wish/155927581