The great omission in American life is solitude… that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. -Marya Mannes
“My knowledge of that life is small, The eye of faith is dim; But it’s enough that Christ knows all, And I shall be with him.” - Richard Baxter
An unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. CS Lewis
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.” -Douglas Adams
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.” - Orson Welles
Is repetitive action virtuous action? If behaviour and conduct are merely repetitive processes then all human relationships actually cease. If I behave mechanically every day, - repeating a certain code of conduct which I have learnt, which I find profitable, or which is pleasant, repeating that over and over again, - my relationship with you ceases, completely - I have become a machine. - J. Krishnamurti
