Cirtnecce

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
― Joan of Arc

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

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
― Plato

“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