“A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 56
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
“Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call; she comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.”
“Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
“Is there no bright reversion in the sky for those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; the glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.”
“Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life.”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
“Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“Life is the desert, life the solitude; death joins us to the great majority.”