"Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah."

-- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Holiday Quotes #Mean Quotes #Men Quotes

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

Source : Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press
“Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.”
“We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.”
“My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.”
“True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.”
“I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.”
“"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."”

Source : To the Point (1981) p. 107
“War is sweet to those who never tried it.”

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