"Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy."

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Source : Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

Wendy Farley

#Optimistic Quotes #Wings Quotes #Joy Quotes

“When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five centuries ago, painting, sculpting, and writing. Imagine he is telling you that you can create whatever you desire, and the great danger is not in having too much hope, but in reaching what you have perceived as hopeless.”
“This bank-note world.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.15
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
“The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.”
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”
“I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.”
“My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.”
“When I hear what we call â€˜music,â€™ it seems to me that someone is talking.Â And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships.Â But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic â€” here on Sixth Avenue, for instance â€” I donâ€™t have the feeling that anyone is talking. Â I have the feeling that sound is acting.Â And I love the activity of sound I donâ€™t need sound to talk to me.”

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