"If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art."

-- Albert Camus

#Art Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.”
“Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.”
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
“Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.”
“Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer.”
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”

Source : Carol Ryrie Brink (2011). “Caddie Woodlawn's Family”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")”

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