Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

—Blaise Pascal

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

—Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

—Blaise Pascal

You always admire what you really don't understand.

—Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

—Blaise Pascal

Here's the thing about broken hearts: You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.

—Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it.

—Henri J. M. Nouwen

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

—Albert Schweitzer

And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love.

—Beatrice of Nazareth