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Do you know my attitude? Books, scriptures, and things like that only point out the way to reach God. After finding the way, what more need is there of books and scriptures? Then comes the time for action. ↗

— Sri Ramakrishna

#quotes-of-ramakrishna #ramakrishna-paramhansa #attitude

¿Qué tienen esos momentos intemporales que luego siempre se recuerdan con una dulce melancolía? A veces me parece que es en esos intervalos de vacío, sin que fuera consciente de ello, cuando he vivido de manera más real y auténtica. ↗

— John Banville

#philosophy-of-life #attitude

If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#catholic-philosophy #catholic-thought #christian-philosophy #christianity #history-of-ideas

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#abstraction #fear #fear-of-truth #god #truth

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. ↗

— Tom Waits

#power-of-music #beauty

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#biggest #copy #damage #did #everyone

Many are called, few are chosen. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#cale #called #chosen #death #divine

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke-garroway #beauty

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#contemporary #half #how #length #novel

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams. ↗

— Justina Chen

#relationships #beauty