"The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain."

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Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

Thomas Traherne

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“When you love someone you let them take care of you.”
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“Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.”
“Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.”
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“We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.”

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