Stephen Bauer

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
― Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter Geraldine

“This is nothing more than the application of a universal law, a law in effect since the time human beings were human beings: “A person rediscovers himself in a living encounter.”17 But here, in the encounter with the presence of the Mystery become a human fact, this law is fulfilled, becomes definitively true, because “it is in an encounter that I become aware of myself…. The ‘I’ awakens from its imprisonment in its original womb, awakens from its tomb, from its sepulcher, from its closed situation of origin and—as it were—‘resurrects,’ becomes aware of itself, precisely in an encounter.”
― Julian Carron, Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom

“A feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Life is hunger, thirst, and passion for an ultimate object, which looms over the horizon, and yet always lies beyond it. When this is recognized, man becomes a tireless searcher.”
― Luigi Giussani, The Religious Sense