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  • #1
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #4
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #6
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    “To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place.

    In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.”
    Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

  • #7
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    “The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.”
    Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Michael Chabon
    “Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
    Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Thomas Aquinas
    “Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”
    Thomas Aquinas



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