"I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars."

-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Stars Quotes #Pain Quotes #Light Quotes

“One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.”
“I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.”
“Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.”
“It is money makes the mare to trot.”
“The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.”
“How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.”
“A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.”
“The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.”

Source : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press

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