“I have a good little friend, a 55-year-old nun named Mary Michael O’Shaughnessy who has a doctorate in theology. She has a banner hanging on her wall that says, “Today I will not ‘should’ on myself.””
— Brennan Manning
“Everything must change for everything to remain the same.”
— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in The Leopard
“The girl you marry and the woman you must make your life with are two different people.”
— Herman Wouk in The Winds of War
“Our imagination so powerfully magnifies time, by continual reflections upon it, that we make nothing of eternity and an eternity of nothing.”
— Pascal
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
