Mark

“If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”
― Andrew Harvey

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
― James Madison

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain”
― Pliny the Elder, Plini naturalis historiae libri XXXVII: Vol. VI. Indices