"To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Love Quotes #Dream Quotes #Solitary Quotes

“God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”
“It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.”

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing
“The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.”

Source : Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Max Ernst: A Retrospective”, p.54, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.”
“Marriage is socialism among two people.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
“You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.”
“Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.275
“For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.94, Guilford Publications

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