Julian Maddock

“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself.”
― Gillian Rose, Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

“What I meant, whether or no I managed to say it, was this; that no man knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whatever created him and enabled him to call himself anything. At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder; so that a man sitting in a chair might suddenly understand that he was actually alive, and be happy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton

“A misgiving was a warning voice from God, which should be attended to as a man valued his soul.”
― Samuel Butler, The Fair Haven

“Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.”
― Otto Rank, Will Therapy/Truth and Reality