Penitencial De Cuaresma Quotes

Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex
absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute
she is the Other. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. ~ Remy De Gourmont

When we are asleep, we are all equal. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. ~ Honore De Balzac

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm ~ Germaine De Stael

I am made of joy! I am joy! My vibration is constantly raising, and I feel good! ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. ~ Barbara De Angelis

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular. ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

It has been estimated that more than 50 million individuals have lost their lives to wars and religious massacres. Is there even one among them worth the blood of a single bird? ~ Marquis De Sade

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year ... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. ~ Charles De Lint

The first treatise on the interior of the body, which is to say, the treatise that gave the body an interior , written by Henri De Mondeville in the fourteenth century, argues that the body is a house, the house of the soul, which like any house can only be maintained as such by constant surveillance of its openings. The woman's body is seen as an inadequate enclosure because its boundaries are convoluted. While it is made of the same material as a man's body, it has ben turned inside out. Her house has been disordered, leaving its walls full of openings. Consequently, she must always occupy a second house, a building to protect her soul. Gradually this sense of vulnerability to the exterior was extended to all bodies which were then subjected to a kind of supervision traditionally given to the woman. The classical argument about her lack of self-control had been generalized. ~ Mark Wigley

What is essential is invisible to the eye. Only with the heart can you see rightly. ~ Antoine De St. Exupéry

The girl wondered if her parents had been right to protect her from everything, if they had been right not to explain why so many things had changed for them since the start of the war... Nobody would tell her. Nobody would explain. She hated being treated like a baby. She hated the voices being lowered when she entered the room. If they had told her, if they had told her everything they knew, wouldn't that have made today easier? ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honore De Balzac

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like. ~ David Hewson

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination. ~ Vincent De Paul

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn. ~ Robert De Niro

It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds. ~ Noel-Antoine Pluche

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. ~ Alain De Botton

My life is the longer version of Ice Princess. ~ Sonja De Lange

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us. ~ Alain De Botton

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail. ~ Floyd Skloot

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? ~ Michel De Montaigne

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. ~ Thomas De Quincey

The best antidote to worry is action. If there is an action that will lessen the likelihood of a dreaded outcome occurring, and if that action doesn't cost too much in terms of effort or freedom, then take it. The worry about whether we remembered to close the baby gate at the top of the stairs can be stopped in an instant by checking. Then it isn't a worry anymore; it's just a brief impulse. Almost all of the worry parents feel about keeping their children safe evolves from the conflict between intuition and inaction.
Your choices when worrying are clear: take action, have faith, pray, seek comfort, or keep worrying. ~ Gavin De Becker

History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself. ~ Sebastien De Castell

Loved. I hadn't even realized how desperetly I'd wanted love.How much we both needed to know that in a world of dark corners and sharp needles, there really is a place where kisses taste like apple pie and where stars spill like suger across the sky. A place where unknown roads no longer scare you because you have another hand to hold. A place where butterflies always flutter whenever you see each other, and a single touch tells you that you are not alone. A place where every kiss still feels like the first. In that place of us, Liv and Dean, love has its own poetry and language. Allure, quartrefoil, fleur-de-lis ... Professor. Beauty. ~ Nina Lane

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all! ~ Marquis De Sade

Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony ~ Guy De Maupassant

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Bing was sitting in front of the TV with the de Zoets an hour later when Mr. Manx came out, fully dressed, in his silk shirt and tails and narrow-toed boots. His starved, cadaverous face had an unhealthy sheen to it in the flickering blue shadows. ~ Joe Hill

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author. ~ Jean De La Bruyere