Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
-Ambrose Bierce
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
-Ambrose Bierce
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
-Martha Graham
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
Trust God completely and he will solve all difficulties. Faithfully leave everything to Him and He will see to everything.
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
-Abraham Maslow
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
-Charles Dickens