I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities. ' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.