“Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?” ArtStillsSuccessLordBattleSacredSpears Book:Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems Source: Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems
“I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?” IfsStillsUseMightWould BeEyeDivineSpringSacredSilentForgottenWanderCharmLanesAisleCataloguesLarksSpring Day Book:Adam Bede ... Tenth edition Source: Adam Bede ... Tenth edition
“It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsFirstsLittlesStillsBookDifficultHurtSuccessfulObjectsProtectSacredHillsBeing SuccessfulPocketsThreateningSave MeTalismansI Was Hurt Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.” StillsLaughingSacredPeak Experiences Author:Abraham Maslow