Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor. ' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken. ' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.