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wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau
wisdom men effort
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
wisdom hands monsters
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
wisdom verbs
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
wisdom flower suffering
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
wisdom children keeping-secrets
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
wisdom men animal
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge lost wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. T. S. Eliot
sleep mystery horror
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. Anne Rice
sleep gay rights
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters. Anita Bryant
sleep bed minutes
I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep Daniel Johns
sleep car people
I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it. Daniel Kahneman
sleep dark night
Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of "Let's whack Bobby in the dark!" - Bobby Pendragon, RoZ D. J. MacHale
sleep men mirrors
Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man? Czeslaw Milosz
sleep lovely hints
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. D. H. Lawrence
sleep past romantic-love
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
sleep home two
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.