88 quotes found
“Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming remindersa lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.”
“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impio...”
“She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes...”
“May we continue to workship God, with wholehearted devotion.”
“God is magnificent. God is mighty.”
“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompletene...”
“Youll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen timesthe wrong wayto love THAT ONEthe right wayYOU!”
“An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In...”
“Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all ones perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some s...”
“You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.”
“Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.”
“To adore, one must be an inferior. But the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity are equal; none is superior, none is inferior. The Son equal in all things to the Father may love the Father; He cann...”
“I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.”
“...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something isnt that what love is all about?...”
“...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...”
“I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.”
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel ...”
“You are theremedy of intensityi need in my life, tospin me out of themiserable monotonyof working on life'sdaily assemblylines.”
“The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.”
