Quotemeal: Sep. 16th, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ who gives us light."
— Mrs. C. T. Whitemell —
"Jesus the very thought of Thee|With sweetness fills my breast;|But sweeter far Thy face to see|And in Thy presence rest."
— Bernard of Clairvaux —
"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."
— John Donne —
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us."
— Joseph Campbell —

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Illustration of Leo Tolstoy — "Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."

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