He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Gone, but only until we get there

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?

If you have the presence of unconditional self-love in your heart, there is no way you would allow yourself to be in an abusive relationship, just because of the fear of being alone.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

If It's not difficult to get, then it's not for you.

It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.