"I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages."

-- Heather McHugh

#Lonely Quotes #Writing Quotes #Shy Quotes

“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.”
“Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.”
“England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.”
“When you feel homesick,â€™ he said, â€˜just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.”
“A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.”
“Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.”

Source : Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.”

Source : Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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