temporary

“Death is philosophy’s only problem.”

“One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.”

“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you will get neither.”

Painting the walls. Hanging the family portrait. Rearranging the furniture. Replacing a couch. Setting out pictures of friends. Sounds like a normal weekend remodeling project in the suburbs, right? But what if it were a hotel room? Would that be a little weird?

Then why do we do the same thing with our lives in general?

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

He owns at least 200 cars, and built a special pyramid in which to store them. He also constructed the world’s biggest pick-up truck…complete with a full suite of luxury rooms. He even has a custom-made, globe-shaped motor home that is exactly one-millionth the size of the Earth.

But evidently, not even that was enough for Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan.