"Listen and attend with the ear of your heart."

-- Benedict of Nursia

#Faith Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.”
“My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.”
“The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you donâ€™t know.”

Source : "Jesus: A Theography". Book by Frank Viola, Leonard Sweet, October 9, 2012.
“Poets are far rarer birds than kings.”
“Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.”
“Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”

Source : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.312
“He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)”
“These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink”

Source : Kenji Miyazawa (2007). “Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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