Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.