"The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us."

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Source : St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press

Philip Neri

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“Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

Source : 'Psyche' (1675) act 3
“When people would ask me what Iâ€™m addicted to, I always said â€˜music.â€™ And while theyâ€™d laugh it off like itâ€™s a clichÃ©, Iâ€™m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. Iâ€™d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said â€˜going out of business,â€™ my heart stopped.”

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“Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.”
“I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.”
“People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things youâ€™ve seen and the people youâ€™ve met.”

Source : Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.105, Spiegel & Grau
“Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator”
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
“I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.”

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