"Weâ€™ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history â€“ that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Vanity Quotes #Profound Quotes #Effort Quotes

“As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.”
“The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.”
“And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.”

Source : William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.62, Rutgers University Press
“But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.”
“The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.”
“True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.”
“If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.”

Source : Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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