Kayla

“He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon.”
― John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold

“Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with out friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“There is an instinctive movement of the body towards better and nobler things, as in the text that says, 'I will lift up mine eyes to the hills," or in that divine command of liberation that took the form of 'Stretch forth thine hand'. The old ceremonial gestures of the human body are necessary to the human soul: the gesture that pledged the guest in the goblet, that strewed the flowers upon the grave; that drew the sword for the salute or set up the candle before the shrine. In that sense, a man actually can think with his muscles; he can pray with his muscles; he can love with his muscles and lament with his muscles. All religion that without that gesture, all Puritan or purely Intellectualist religion that rages at ritual, is raging at human nature. If an ancient pagan came from the city of Plato and the temple of Pallas, and found himself in a certain type of town in the Middle West, I admit that he would probably prefer to be a Behaviorist rather than a Baptist.”
― G. K. Chesterton