If morality is a guide in the quest to achieve your own happiness by creating the values of mind and body that make a successful life, then morality is about personal profit, not its renunciation.
— Yaron Brook, “Our Moral Code is Out of Date”
Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited one day, a lot of people wouldn’t have even heard he died.
They’d be all, “Hey Jesus, what up?” and Jesus would probably be like, “What up? I died yesterday!” and they’d be all, “Uh, you look pretty alive to me, dude…” and then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and the dude’d be like “Uhh okay, whatever you say, bro…”
And he’s not gonna come back on a Saturday. Everybody’s busy, doing chores, workin’ the loom, trimmin’ the beard, NO. He waited the perfect number of days, three.
Plus it’s Sunday, so everyone’s in church already, and they’re all in there like “Oh no, Jesus is dead”, and then BAM! He bursts in the back door, runnin’ up the aisle, everyone’s totally psyched, and FYI, that’s when he invented the high five.
That’s why we wait three days to call a woman, because that’s how long Jesus wants us to wait…. True story.
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Barney Stinson
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
— Orison Swett Marden
Religion’s monopoly in the field of ethics has made it extremely difficult to communicate the emotional meaning and connotations of a rational view of life. Just as religion has pre-empted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language, placing them outside this earth and beyond man’s reach.
— Ayn Rand
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
— Arthur C. Clarke
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.
— Ayn Rand
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short circuit destroying the mind. Faith is the worst curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
— Ayn Rand
When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men.
— Ayn Rand
It’s a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.
— Kira from Ayn Rand’s “We The Living”
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
— John Galt (Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged)
