"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

-- Saint Augustine

#Light Quotes #Sensual Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”
“Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.”
“So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.”
“I think a lot of people, when they think about the house, they think of the print. But when people think about Emilio Pucci, I want them to think about this really, really hot girl, so my biggest job is to give her a face and an identity - and I do that by trying to associate that kind of print that people have in their minds with a kind of girl who is free-spirited, rebellious, a little bit rock 'n' roll, and who has a lot of energy, who is up.”
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts â€“ like a Chinese nest of boxes â€“ oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front â€“ in our ancestors, back and back until...”

Source : Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation
“My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.”
“Every why hath a wherefore.”
“It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.”

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