Gaarn Thomsen Quotes & Sayings

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP! — Widad Akreyi

By solemn vision and bright silver dream
His infancy was nurtured. Every sight
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength? — Zora Neale Hurston

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. — Bryant H. McGill

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live. — Thomas Merton

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city. — Arthur Frommer

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts. — Jean-Claude Van Damme