We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but...
The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "...
Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate ...
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
I was not born with English in my pocket.
Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.
Love is fuel for the soul.
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded
You know, sometimes I even envy myself.
He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?
Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
Poetry is the sound of the human animal.
To err is human, to stroll is Parisian.
One always has hope for human nature
Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.
Blame is the creed of the disempowered.
