Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.
You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you. " - Duncan to Madelyne.
I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.