"The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world."

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Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

Hugh Kingsmill

#Spring Quotes #Soul Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.”
“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.”
“I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.”
“Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.”
“We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.”
“The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.”
“Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.”
“I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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