"The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance."

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Thomas Merton

#Faith Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Wind Quotes

“This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.”

Source : Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.5, 谷月社
“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.”
“I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.”
“Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.”
“How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.”

Source : Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.122, Algonquin Books
“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
“After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing.”

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