Quotes for All
A spa hotel? It’s like a normal hotel, only in reception there’s a picture of a pebble. Rhod Gilbert
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our thinking is a pious reception. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. Ralph Cudworth
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude Rainer Maria Rilke
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer’s Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
A. E. Housman
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine