Purposeless Splendor Quotes & Sayings

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. — Michel De Montaigne

God doesn't give us tests that we can't pass, and he must have figured I could handle whatever was going to happen. — Thomas A. Middleton

Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same. — Grant Cardone

What we take for granted can destroy us. Regret becomes a living thing, digging into your skin, seeping into your veins, until it invades your lungs, cutting off your air supply. It has the power to bring you to your knees and make you beg for death. I beg for release from my existence every second of the day. — Alaska Angelini

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love. — Meister Eckhart

Ultimately what remains is a story. In the end, it's the only thing any of us really owns. — Carole Radziwill

Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch. — Lynn Flewelling

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. — Elias Canetti

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that. — Claire Scovell LaZebnik

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors. — Henry Adams

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting throught the wind Wanting to start again Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards One blow from caving in — Katy Perry

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. — Chloe Thurlow

The world is too much with us. — William Wordsworth