“I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.” IfsGivingFeelsShouldBelieveFeelingsWould BeLyingValuesAsksJesusI BelieveGoalDecisionChristianityAliveGive MeGood LifeShould IAnchorsProfessorship Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .” GivingLittlesArtStillsBookSoulAgeLyingRoomsWonderAliveStagePraiseDelightWitTheeMonumentApplauseTombsLodgesChaucerSpenser Book:Ben Jonson Source: Ben Jonson
“When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.” MenMayHas BeensTogetherLyingDiesChurchExistenceAliveRightsFiguresHe ManStonesGravesRuinsFallenFancyBuriedSooner Or LaterLong LifeMonumentAfter DeathFootstepsCheatedCongregationLife After DeathInscriptions Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.” PeopleWorldWritingHardAgeLyingHumanityNextAsksSexRaceOpinionAliveDoorsGroupsUniversalSafetyBraveGenderImmenseOutsidersValidityAffiliationCateringPersonal Opinions Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.” TryingLyingDiesFallLove IsAliveSkyBuildingBuiltEverlastingLasting LoveEverlasting Love Author:Jeff Tweedy