“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The god of Delos, proud in victory, Saw Cupid draw his bow's taut arc, and said: 'Mischievous boy, what are a brave… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely that each in… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Gerda sends Astrid flying back, then swings to her own board. Astrid soars now like a rider taming a wild beast, bending… — Pam Jenoff Copy Share Image
“The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“They came late to the empty land and looked with bitterness upon the six wolves watching them from the horizon's rim. With… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“At the end of the forest the guardian angel pointed to the village and said: ‘There you will find your mother. She… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I like the word ‘decadent,’ all shimmering with purple and gold … it throws out the brilliance of flames and the gleam… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“But if you could read my thoughts, you would be welcome to come in and listen to the story of my life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...I spent the whole morning coiled up in front of the fire, with my hands over it, eating nothing, motionless, just listening… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image