"The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible."

-- Knut Hamsun

#Morning Quotes #Blood Quotes #Rose Quotes

“Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.”
“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.”

Source : 'Absolute and Abitofhell' (1913)
“If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.”

Source : John of Ruysbroeck, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage”, p.132, Aeterna Press
“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.”
“I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.
“Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to get there. If you believe in the first person of the Trinity, God the Father, also believe in the second person of the Trinity, the one who came as the Light of the World, not only to die for people, but to light the way... This one, Jesus Christ, is himself the Light and will guide your footsteps along the way.”
“I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.”
“My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.”

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