Aelred Quotes & Sayings

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss ... — Aelred Of Rievaulx

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. — Kurt Cobain

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where. — Robert Burns

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. 'It's like money in the bank, old girl', he would say ... — William Boyd

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti

United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected. — Leonard Peltier

I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.'For the big job,' you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I'd never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to. — Kate Chisman

Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now ... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind. (p. 29) — Aelred Of Rievaulx

I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add. — Steven Wright

People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good. — Evan Williams

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

I don't want to lose anyone else I care about... for reasons I don't understand! I swore to myself I would do whatever necessary to prevent that from ever happening again! — Noriko Ogiwara

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider. — Samoa Joe

You know what love is? ... It's what you least expect. — Alice Hoffman

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

With Ambrose's help, Aelred adjusts the Ciceronian model to portray friends' sharing with one another not only their questions but also their fears and hopes. All three of the young monks being instructed thus demonstrate the ease with which friends interact as they talk candidly with one another and with their abbot and teacher. — Marsha Dutton

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books. — Susan Hill

The spirit of life, the divinity of the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita