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“We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.”
Source : The Living Age ..., Volume 169, p. 460, 1886.
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“We're part of each other's lives. We're in each other's stories.”
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“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
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“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.”
Source : Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins
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“Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.”
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“Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?”
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“Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.”
Source : 1614 Commendatory poem to William Leighton's Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowfull Soule.
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“It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?â€. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.”
