"How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump."

-- Rumi

#Hands Quotes #Sea Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.”
“Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.”
“This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him”

Source : Charles Hodge (1841). “The Way of Life”, p.300
“I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.”
“The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.”
“Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.”
“I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.”

Source : "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.
“What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

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