So hath God by rational methods enabled us to love others better than ourselves, and thereby made us the most glorious creatures. Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. But when we do love ourselves, and self-love is satisfied infinitely in all […]
Love is the one supreme duty and good. That love is wisdom and purity and valour and peace, and its infinite sorrow is infinitely better than the world’s richest joy. Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)
The contemplation of Eternity maketh the Soul immortal. Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Men esteem Truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God Himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all […]
How can he remember well his ignorance, which his growth requires, who has so often to use his knowledge? Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letters of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God, none of the servants. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Now or Never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
