Kloutnine Quotes & Sayings

If a prisoner hadn't lived outside, he would not
detest the dungeon. Desiring knows there's satisfaction beyond this. Straying maps
the path. A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. Your love
of many things proves they're one. Every separate stiff trunk and stem in the garden
connects with nimble root hairs underground. The awareness a wine drinker wants cannot
be tasted in wine, but that failure brings his deep thirst closer. So the heart keeps ignoring
the waterfall and the key, but there is one guiding through all the desiring restlessness. — Rumi

Enjoy the journey, forget the end. — Nigel Barto

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. — John Millington Synge

A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was. — Dorothy Dunnett

...the pond remembers another
time: when flames were for warmth
and children didn't have to run from their light. — Patrick Woodcock

Pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of the misery of it while it lasts, suffers evil and the sufferance of evil, unmerited, unprovoked, where no offence has been given, and no good can possibly be answered by it, but merely to exhibit power or gratify malice, is Cruelty and Injustice in him that occasions is. — Humphry Primatt

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology. — Stanley Hauerwas