Noelle

“No one heals himself by wounding another.”
― St. Ambrose

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde