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Suzanne Collins quote: "the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which..."
the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. Suzanne Collins
Frederick William Faber quote: "There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy..."
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go. Frederick William Faber
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. Anne Lamott
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven. Novalis
Prolong not the past. Invite not the future. Do not alter your innate wakefulness. Fear not appearances. There in nothing more than this Ram Dass
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs. And stare as long as sheep or cows... W. H. Davies
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. Alexander Dumas
Julian Barnes quote: "Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it..."
Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange. Julian Barnes
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics. Paul Brunton
Max Beerbohm quote: "For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of..."
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. Max Beerbohm
Lily Tomlin quote: "Just remember, we're all in this alone."
Just remember, we're all in this alone. Lily Tomlin
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. Henri Bergson
Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last forever is making a false promise; he is overlooking human freedom. Freedom must be constantly won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined and good state of the world, man's... Joseph Ratzinger
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy. Saul Williams
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom. E. M. Forster

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