"The voice of God whispers in the heart So softly That the soul pauses, Making no noise, And strives for these melodies, Distant, sighing, like faintest breath, And all the being is still to hear."

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Source : Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.14, Courier Corporation

Stephen Crane

#Heart Quotes #Voice Quotes #Soul Quotes

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
“Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
“Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.”
“Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.”
“The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.”
“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.”
“What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.”

Source : "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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