A God-intoxicated man.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NovalisNovalis A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NovalisNovalis If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
NovalisNovalis Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NovalisNovalis You are alone with everything you love.
NovalisNovalis One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NovalisNovalis The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NovalisNovalis In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NovalisNovalis We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
NovalisNovalis Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
NovalisNovalis Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NovalisNovalis Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NovalisNovalis When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NovalisNovalis Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NovalisNovalis All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
NovalisNovalis We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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I am God’s creation ,designed according to His plan for me.
Nick VujicicNick Vujicic Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila What matters is not your outward appearance but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.
Saint PeterSaint Peter What if God’s ‘NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.
Lysa TerKeurstLysa TerKeurst The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.
Hildegard of BingenHildegard of Bingen As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
John DonneJohn Donne