Cirtnecce

“All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”
― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations