"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."

“Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.”

“The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2001). “Niagara Falls All Over Again”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

“In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.71, Vintage

“I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.”

“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”

“I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.”

“Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)”