"Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration."

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Source : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

Robert Williams Buchanan

#Dark Quotes #Self Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.57, Routledge
“Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of â€˜keeping away from the dope.â€™ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?”
“If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.”
“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.”
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
“I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.”
“President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.”

Source : "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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