The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Ron Perlman

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Dean Acheson, from a speech in I

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

revealed to me the most important truth concerning human life. Which is that a shared, a loyal, love between two people is the most beautiful, the most numinous, the most valuable thing of all.

David Myatt

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Robert Menzies

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Raoul Vaneigem

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Thomas Kempis

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Miguel de Cervantes

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Jane Campion

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Edward Bennett Williams