The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone is seeking, ” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he...
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Hermann Hesse
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
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Shannon L. Alder
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Philip Zaleski
Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.
A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.
Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was...
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. — Owen Barfield
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
