"Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves."

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Source : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

Kathleen Raine

#Self Quotes #May Quotes #Mood Quotes

“It's not about what you're saying, it's about how you listen.”
“You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.”

Source : "Gene Simmons: I've never been drunk". CNN Interview, marquee.blogs.cnn.com. July 9, 2012.
“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”
“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”
“The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.”
“The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.”
“some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.”

Source : Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor
“Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Marcus". "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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