Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Community And Growth

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

The Canterville Ghost

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

Community And Growth

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Community And Growth

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Community And Growth

Sunt convins ca hazardul, cu capriciile lui, e promotorul adevarat al tuturor faptelor mari din istoria omului, as zice al intregii civilizatii omenesti, ba chiar stapanul real al intregului univers.

Ciuleandra

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The Closing of the American Mind

perchè non c'è nessun altro dal quale andare! Bisogna pure che ogni uomo abbia qualche posto dove andare. Poichè ci sono momenti in cui assolutamente bisogna andare da qualche parte!

Crime and Punishment

E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazioni possano essere rivissute e fatte nuove. Ma perfavore se ti senti in quel modo non chiamare non scrivere non arrivare...

Come On In!: New Poems

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

Critias

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Casebook

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

The Denial of Death

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

The Denial of Death

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

Dar y Tomar El Patrón toma menos de lo que le es dado Y da más de lo que ha tomado

The Dermis Probe

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Dil Darya Samandar

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

Dil Darya Samandar