"Want of punctuality is a want of virtue."

-- James Murray Mason

#Want Quotes #Punctuality Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Touch me â€˜til my ribs become piano keys, â€˜til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.”
“Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.”

Source : Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.269, Simon and Schuster
“She who means no mischief does it all.”

Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135
“There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.”
“Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.”
“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”
“Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.128, Hachette UK
“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky's commencement address at Williams College (1984), as quoted in Robert Inchausti "Thinking through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times" (p. 110), 2014.

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