"Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now....Certainly I'll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through."

-- Bret Lott

#Running Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will be gone.”
“I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, “A Vote (Excerpt)”
“New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.”
“I love ***** - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice cream and I'm not afraid to say it.”
“The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.”
“So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.”
“Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.”

Source : Kenneth Koch (2012). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch”, p.542, Knopf
“Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.”

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