You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. -- Maurice Sendak
#Believe Quotes #Wonderful Quotes #Melville Quotes
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
“Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.”
“Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.”
“Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.”
“The cure might be worse than the problem”
“My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box...”
“I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.”
“Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.”
“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
“In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.”
