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- A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
- Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side…
- When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to…
- Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.
- When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a…
- I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The…
- Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
- Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
- I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the…
- But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the…
- The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
- I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
- It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars,…
- The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
- Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter…
- Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only…
- And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you…
- Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times…
- It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you.…
- Only a fool is not afraid.
- It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
- Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes…
- Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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