Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is the craving which makes him a pilgrim and a wanderer. It is the longing to go out from his normal world in search of a lost home, a 'better country'; an Eldorado, a Sarras, a Heavenly Syon. The next is the craving of heart for heart, of the Soul for its perfect mate, which makes him a lover. The third is the craving for inward purity and perfection, which makes him an ascetic, and in the last resort a saint.
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ARTHUR MILLER We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost. DEBASISH MRIDHA The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific... NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. SARVESH JAIN And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eigh... ED SHEERAN The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.” “Oh?” I turn at the wais... J.A. REDMERSKI I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �... J.A. REDMERSKI
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EVELYN WAUGH ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. EVELYN WAUGH [Change is] the only evidence of life. EVELYN WAUGH I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ... EVELYN WAUGH Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? EVELYN WAUGH ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy... EVELYN WAUGH To understand all is to forgive all. EVELYN WAUGH No one is ever holy without suffering. EVELYN WAUGH The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty ... EVELYN WAUGH If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ... EVELYN WAUGH I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old... EVELYN WAUGH Sweetheart. That's not the way you want to remember her. EVELYN THOMPSON Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the play... EVELYN WAUGH The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m... EVELYN WAUGH A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another. EVELYN GLENNIE I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, c... JOHN EVELYN Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world. JOHN EVELYN Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to... JOHN EVELYN I'd see him on downtown street corners, always with a camera. He'd be testing the light. EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try. EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y... EVELYN WAUGH They tore the covers off our antique cars and our classic cars because I'm sure there was a cat on t... EVELYN HESTER Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. EVELYN WAUGH We have a good marker, non-invasively, and do see increased atherosclerosis -- also more plaque and ... EVELYN TALBOTT Mande un angel a vilgilar te, pero regreso, porque Angeles no vigilan otros Angeles EVELYN JIMENEZ Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i... EVELYN WAUGH [A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge... EVELYN WAUGH Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t... EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. EVELYN WAUGH Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra... EVELYN WAUGH I put the words down and push them a bit. EVELYN WAUGH I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. EVELYN WAUGH Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker EVELYN WAUGH I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes... EVELYN WAUGH Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl... EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official... EVELYN WAUGH When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. EVELYN WAUGH He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into... EVELYN FOX You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage. EVELYN KLEBERT