Virgilian Quotes

#1. Soldier, there is a war between the mind
And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
For that the poet is always in the sun,
Patches the moon together in his room
To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
Up down. It is a war that never ends.

Wallace Stevens

#2. Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

Lucy Lawless

#4. There is beauty that soothes like the warm kiss of the spring sun upon the cheek, and then there is beauty that terrifies, like the cry of Ozymandias, inviting despair.

Rick Yancey

#5. As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

Dan Simmons

#6. I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

Erma Bombeck

#7. Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do ... The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

Jack Kornfield

#9. As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.

Al Sharpton

#10. Wisdom is earned, not given

Dante Alighieri

#11. Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

Miguel Ruiz

#12. I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

Rabih Alameddine

#13. I got to see my friend B. J. Novak daily, which, when we weren't fighting, was the absolute best.

Mindy Kaling

#14. Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

Ramakrishna

#15. Maybe because he can read the pain of others... that he values saving them more than his own life.

Hotaru Odagiri