When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint. Matthew Woodring Stover More Quotes by Matthew Woodring Stover More Quotes From Matthew Woodring Stover At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars. Matthew Woodring Stover starsheartlife It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. Matthew Woodring Stover existentialismbad-moodeasy With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins. Matthew Woodring Stover lightdarkwinning Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm. Matthew Woodring Stover fightingcivilizationlong Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state Matthew Woodring Stover welfaresacrificefirsts A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization. Matthew Woodring Stover pursuit-of-happinessrightscivilization A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth. Matthew Woodring Stover metaphorpowerfulenough Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us. Matthew Woodring Stover good-and-evilevil When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere Matthew Woodring Stover uncertaintysoloknows This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it. Matthew Woodring Stover powerfullightorder I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you! Matthew Woodring Stover foundmonstersmen I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step. Matthew Woodring Stover shoesstonesway All true stories end in death. Matthew Woodring Stover true-storyendsstories Each of us is the sum of our scars. Matthew Woodring Stover clarityscar A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle. Matthew Woodring Stover hustlesmellworld Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be. Matthew Woodring Stover merechancelife-is Reasons are for peasants. Matthew Woodring Stover peasantsreason Only human, after all. Matthew Woodring Stover humans We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer. Matthew Woodring Stover waitinganswerstwo It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest Matthew Woodring Stover shininglightnight
