Helgashub Quotes

#1. Death means nothing to us

Epicurus

#2. Meditative prayer does not do violence to our rational faculties. Neither does it confine us solely to the rational. We descend with the mind into the heart.

Richard J. Foster

#3. The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Francis Bacon

#4. The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#5. Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.

Anuj

#6. It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Rebecca West

#7. Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.

Tracey L. Moore

#10. He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Publilius Syrus