We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.
Amy CarmichaelTags: life christianity
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La RochefoucauldOne cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: life courage danger cynical
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: life reading books refuge pleasure bibliotherapy escape good-habits
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLa rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.
Carmen Martín GaiteIf there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
Jonathan Safran Foer...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.
Patti SmithTags: life transcendence patti-smith
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John BurroughsTags: life
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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