“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.” SelfAgeSidesMemoriesWatchesImpossibleJourneyReturnMessagesDrawsGardenDistanceOld AgeHorizonVoidSunlightSignalsAstronautQuietnessWatch MeDecipherRipeningFar Side Author:R. S. Thomas
“We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?” WorldWantCoursesGivenMorningReturnShapesMessagesGet UpHanging OutWorld History Author:Bill Johnson
“A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.” HumansCompanyClearCuttingRightsSacrificeReturnMessagesHuman RightsChineseCheerfulnessShareholdersBoycott Author:Simon Davies
“It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about.” IfsThinkingMenMayReligiousVisionParticularHe ManListeningReturnMessagesFellowsSeekingInsightWildernessCommonplace Author:Loren Eiseley
“I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.” NeedsCompanyRecordsReturnEqualMessagesManagementFishesHuntsTruckDeerRecord CompaniesBack Roads Author:Blake Shelton
“At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.” MayMomentsLastsSpiritualityReturnMessagesLet MeUnionsFingersRealizationThat MomentCompassionateSlidesUnspokenLet Me Go Author:Elizabeth Gilbert