Lydia Fenet Quotes & Sayings

We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order is demolished, that instead of freedom we have death. — Madeleine L'Engle

Worldly conformity, in any degree, is a snare to the soul, — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood — Tim Flannery

With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

It's a seduction, Annie. It's about want. Not need."
"You've already seduced me," she whispered. "All I want is you. — Molly O'Keefe

A much better, albeit less obvious way to gain satisfaction is not by working to satisfy our desires but by working to master them. In particular, we need to take steps to slow down the desire-formation process within us. Rather than working to fulfill whatever desires we find in our head, we need to work at preventing certain desires from forming and eliminating many of the desires that have formed. And rather than wanting new things, we need to work at wanting the things we already have. This — William B. Irvine