"To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul."

-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Silence Quotes #Soul Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.”
“I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.”
“If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.”
“In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.”
“It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.”
“You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets”
“I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.”

Source : Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.435, Macmillan

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