Such people do not realize that by alleviating the suffering of those before your eyes, practicing benevolence and living rightly, our good influence will extend far beyond. –Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, translated by Meredith McKinney…
We have all known the long loneliness, and we know that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
« Dire que j’ai gâché des années de ma vie, que j’ai voulu mourir, que j’ai eu mon plus grand amour, pour une femme qui ne me plaisait pas, qui n’était pas mon genre !…
But I want to seek out a means of going to heaven by a little way, a way that is very straight, very short, and totally new. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
One advantage of knowing the classics is that no matter the what situation you might find yourself in, you’ll remember that someone else was there before you. –Kenneth Rexroth, quoted in Anne Waldman and Laura…
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Our legacy is Jesus and the saints. –Daniel Berrigan, S.J., The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power
Johnson made such chains of learned reference in his writing, and his written works are the outgrowth of the kind of reading Johnson did, in which fragments of writing can be distributed under preexisting topics…
Extinguish pride as quickly as you would a fire. –Herakleitos, in Guy Davenport, Herakleitos and Diogenes
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, a book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met. —Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, translated by…