Cyprian Norwid Quotes

#1. I don't possess these thoughts I have
they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have
They obsess me.

Ashly Lorenzana

#2. Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

Cyprian Norwid

#3. When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#4. Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Satish Kumar

#5. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for.
The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
tragedy.

Cyprian Norwid

#7. I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

Richard Flanagan

#8. A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley