Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.
J. K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
. . . life without coffee is not really life.
The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.
the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. . . . You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.
The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.
Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.