“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.” WorldBeautifulStarsFeltSawsThis WorldWallStonesSkinsEmptinessDetachmentFusionNumbnessSeparateness Book:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
“Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.” FeelsBeautifulPowerfulFocusObjectsTypeStonesFeel GoodHopefullyConcentration Author:Frederick Lenz
“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.” ThinkingWayStillsShowsLastsBeautifulDeathBlackNumbersHalfWonderfulSorrowQuietStonesHorseDressesGrassMidstFalsehoodSculptureFeathersSpoilCathedralsCredibleEpitaphAmiableVaults Book:Works Source: Works
“I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.” BeautifulSawsGrewStonesPillowWearinessDaffodil Author:Dorothy Wordsworth
“If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'” IfsMindWellsLooksKindSaidEndsDoneFeelingsBeautifulRememberFatherCan DoBreakSunSkyMinesSonPrayingOne DayStonesCloudsBreadLook UpBe KindThank GodHis LoveNot AloneWell DoneWearinessSomething BeautifulOne Day At A TimeForgetfulFeeling AloneTake One Day At A Time Author:Nick Vujicic
“Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to rot by white men, many, many hundreds of buffalo. ... Our hearts were like stones. And yet nobody believed, even then, that the white man could kill all the buffalo. Since the beginning of things there had always been so many!” MenHeartCountryBeautifulLeftWhiteMy HeartStonesWhite ManBuffaloBeautiful Country Author:Pretty Shield
“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?” MenGivingShouldMayHomeBeautifulEasyTechnologyFitOffersStonesWingsSpotsDustPrisonerTransitionToilWormsBricksPilgrimageTimber Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne