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I blame myself without reserve for my weakness. It was merely weakness. One half-hour with Art was always more to me than a cycle with you. Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
The biblical day begins at sundown—the early evening, we might call it. It is the end that is also the beginning.
- Dallas Willard
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens"
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.
- Wendell Berry
What men know and presume about the earth is part of it, passing always back into it, carried on by it into what they do not know. Even their abuses of it, their diminishments and dooms, belong to it.
- Wendell Berry
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
- William Faulkner
which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth but free in earth and not in earth but of earth, myriad yet undiffused of every myriad part, leaf and twig and particle, air and sun and rain and dew and night, acorn oak and leaf and acorn again, dark and dawn and dark and dawn again in their immutable progression and, being myriad, one...
- William Faulkner
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The truth is, when we burn the paper, it will change into something else and will continue on in other forms—as ash, smoke, and heat, in our body and the universe. The heat is one of the next lives of the paper, as is the smoke rising to the sky. The ash will return to the earth and become part of the soil. So the sheet of paper, in its next life, might be a cloud and a rose at the same time.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Above all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.
- Thomas Merton
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
- George Bernard Shaw
The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.
- George Lucas