Desert Fathers Mysticism Quotes & Sayings

You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose. — Sylvain Reynard

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die. — Benedicta Ward

There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away. — Mark Twain

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there. — James Iha

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings. — Ann Brashares

The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an
object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I become the subjective
consciousness of the landscape, and my painting becomes its objective consciousness. — Cezanne

Frustration is the beginning of the end of pretending. — Ralph Harris

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair. — Angel Olsen

I used to know a woman named Anita Hurl," Lizbeth said. "Get it? I need to hurl? — Deb Caletti

Every day since waking up in the hospital I've wanted to die, but watching that man sink below the waves, I feel something inside me rise up. A Dragon doesn't surrender. A Dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on an ember and found a slight orang glow. I have to hang on to my life - however ruined and useless. Mama's voice comes floating to me, reciting one of her favorite sayings, "There is no catastrophe except death; one cannot be poorer than a beggar." I want - need - to do something braver and finer than dying. — Lisa See

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. — Ernest Poole