Quotations

"You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions."

— Wendell Berry, American poet, born 1934

"I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God."

— Wendell Berry, American poet, born 1934

"The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass."

— Wendell Berry, American poet, born 1934

"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

— John Berryman, American poet, born 1914

"Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him."

— Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director, born 1940

"My Superior showed me the door, and I stayed there 40 years."

— Andre Bessette, Canadian saint, born 1845

"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy."

— Jeff Bezos, American businessman, born 1964

"The whole life of these trees is to serve. With their leaves, flowers, fruits, branches, roots, shade, fragrance, sap, bark, wood, and finally even their ashes and coal, they exist for the purpose of others."

— Srimad Bhagavatam, Divine-Eternal tales of Supreme God

"Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."

— 2Chr. 6.1, KVJ

"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."

— 1John 4:16, NIV Bible

"It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn't matter because you can do anything."

— Simone Biles, American gymnast, born 1997

"Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion."

— Alfred Binet, French psychologist, born 1857

"A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment."

— Alfred Binet, French psychologist, born 1857

"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."

— Elizabeth Bishop, American poet, born 1911