"In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty."

-- Owen Barfield

#Life Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.”
“They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one”
“Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.”
“The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesnâ€™t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end upâ€“wordless, inarticulateâ€”by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.”
“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40
“All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.”
“If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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