Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books. . . but in fuller immersion in existence.
A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.
One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
Ideas are useless unless used.
Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.
Knowing you might not make it. . . in that knowledge courage is born.
Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.
The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls