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I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ↗

— St. Thérèse de Lisieux

#lisieux #religous #inspirational

Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism offers the great deception that thanks to its machinations everyone will be richer in the future, thus justifying gross inequality and humiliation today. ↗

— Carne Ross

#communism #politics #utopia #change

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#minimalism #motivation #self-motivation #success #inspirational

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad-reviews #self-publishing #writing #men

In fact, the truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act; not merely to reflect. ↗

— D.T. Suzuki

#spiritualism #zen #inspirational

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #inspirational

We always remember our first love as if they were our last and wish our last love was just like our first. ↗

— Nicholas Graveheart

#inspirational #realistic #inspirational

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence. ↗

— Brent Weeks

#philosophy #men

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. ↗

— François Fénelon

#humans #nationalism #patriotism #war #men

This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a "setup." For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may beed a working music studio. Or a computer room where you can write something. It's crucial to have a setup, so that, at any given moment, when you get an idea, you have the place and the tools to make it happen. If you don't have a setup, there are many times when you get the inspiration, the idea, but you have no tools, no place to put it together. And the idea just sits there and festers. Overtime, it will go away. You didn't filfill it--and that's just a heartache. ↗

— David Lynch

#fullfilment #preparation #procrastination #inspirational