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“One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.”
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“The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.”
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“Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.”
Source : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.599, Aeterna Press
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“No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.”
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“He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.”
Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.147, Library of Alexandria
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“It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.”
Source : Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications
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“Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.”
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“I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.”
