Madison Clapp

“and it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Our greatest need is to be silent before this great God with the appetite and with the tongue, for the only language he hears is the silent language of love.”
― John of the Cross, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle, The Living Flame of Love, Letters, and The Minor Works) [Revised Edition]

“O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty?

I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riches in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on riches.

I do not set store by a lovely face that, vanquished, is civil plunder of the ages, & perfidious wealth has never pleased me,

for I deem it best, as one of my truths, to deplete the vanities of this life & never this life to deplete in vanities.”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings