"When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see the face. The face comes in darkness because it would be too beautiful to see. If there were such a thing as a holy person, a god, with a halo around his head, you wouldn't be able to see his face because the beauty would be terrifying."

-- Pat Steir

#Beautiful Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.”
“Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.”
“Nothing stays together without a fight.”
“Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!”

Source : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.”
“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”

Source : Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.325, Simon and Schuster
“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

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