Gaspara Stampa quotes

“O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.”
-- Gaspara Stampa

Source : Gaspara Stampa, “Rime 28”

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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”

“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.”

“Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.”

Source : "Aaliyah Talks About Her Parents And Her Sensuality". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. April 4, 1997.

“Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories”

“Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.”

“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”

“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”