Being Right

"...not hurting people is ten...thousand time more...important than being right."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, pg. 118

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.”

- Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"

The thoughtlessness of any individual, when it is seen to be in service to the mindfulness of the Lord, cannot justify anger.

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (pg. 194)

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above all, mind what you say. "Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is a fire." --that's the truth.

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (pg. 6)