"O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!"

-- George Eliot

#Light Quotes #Soul Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.”
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
“Meanwhile, however, whatâ€™s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.”
“You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.”
“In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.”
“The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.”
“The idea of flux, kind of constant change, whether it be our sense of time or geological time or cosmic time. It's always there, and I think that maybe it's a way of dealing with the idea of mortality, trying to acknowledge the fact that all things change, and whereas, maybe death is the end of one state of being it's the beginning of something else. I'm not talking about going to heaven or being reincarnated as a toad, I'm talking about the idea that the molecules in our bodies, or at least the atoms, were here at the beginning of the universe, and the sense that we are basically matter.”
“After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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