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Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?

…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.

I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.

I'm not crazy when I replace everything that people consider as a stability, safety and wealth with the right to think of the moment I had spent with you.  

Gradually you became my worst memories with a beautiful past

Fuck! The things she does to me with a simple kiss.

Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

May your lamp forever burn at night.

My life is my book, but I can't read it.

I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.

Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you.

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

I'm sorry...I just don't know what's wrong with me..

Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

Appreciate the sacred life you have, it is a gift from God.

Quin lay down next to me and buried his face in my neck. I felt everything hidden and heavy inside him collapse in my arms. His hot tears joined with mine."I need you.""I know," I answered.

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

Once I am aware of what has been on my mind and have established ways to respond in faith with a particular prayer, sacred word, or silence before God, my anxious thoughts lose a great deal of their power.

Why would I want to take baby steps? Babies are shit at walking - think about it. To move forward I'll be taking jazzy little lizard steps.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.

In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court

Ignore the loneliness, enjoy your presence.

All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.

There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security.

You could have heard a bee fluff

DesireI desire youmore than foodand drinkMy bodymy sensesmy mindhunger for your tasteI can sense your presencein my heartalthough you belongto all the worldI waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

Live and learn not to take things so personal.

i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.

A deep wound inside him began to heal. And he suddenly knew that being separated from this woman would only bring him a certain sadness.

So young and yet already carrying a great burden on her shoulders. Do not worry, my dear, I will make sure you can protect yourself and others. Because you are our hope … sweet, darling … Arima.

Come in." The kid turned and walked toward the house. "I'll help you if I can." He paused, his brown eyes turned toward Stacy who now stood open-mouthed. "But you'll have to do something for me in return."tI frowned. "Like what?"t"Hide me from my mother," he said. His eyes were shiny with fresh tears.tI snorted. "Do you mean your mother, the beauty queen?"t"No," he said softly. His face suddenly seemed older. "I mean my mother, the monster.

To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.

I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.

You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!

You dont need a thousand dollars to do something good for someone, You just need the right intention for it

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Prot: I'm not tired.Brewer: I am.Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways,like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Life lessons are well-learned through trails.

If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.

-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.