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“Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.”
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“Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”
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“I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.”
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“The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.”
Source : Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905). “Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality”
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“When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.”
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“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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“Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.”
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“To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.”
Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.14, New York Review of Books
