"The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do."

-- Sarah Fielding

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.”
“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.17, AK Press
“Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."”
“We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems as simple as we can, and there are limits to that because we can only simplify things so much. The other is the use of encryption.”
“More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.”
“Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.”
“A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.”

Source : "Revolution Of The Heart: Essays On the Catholic Worker". Book edited by Patrick G. Coy, 1988.
“Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the amount of love, but simply its existence in the mind and heart where it resides. And it truly appears that love is to the soul of the lover as the soul itself is to the body which it animates.”

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