Mary E. Pearson Quotes

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.