I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!
It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.
Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life. . . three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.