"... solitude can be well fitted and set right but upon a very few persons."

"Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals."

"For one thing, you may be strenuously advised to keep reading."

"And, just like Saint-Simon, seemingly a shallow courtier at the king’s court, secretly he becomes the actor and judge of an entire epoch."

"At first he noticed merely that he was different from the ruck, that he was more delicately poised, more sensitive, more keen-sighted."

"FEW have lied more arrantly or quizzed the world with greater delight than Stendhal; few have told the truth with more profundity than he."

"MANY YEARS a favorite wish has accompanied me. This favorite wish was a pretty one, — a refuge."

" I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's bantam cock, who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow."

"Sport presents three main elements: the spectacle, the competition, and the personalities of the gladiators."

'I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life,.."

"Thus it was not long before I began to see the world as long-voyage sailors must always have seen it."

"We can count these stars, and yet we cannot believe that we exist as far as they are concerned."

"Go and sit in a grove or woods, with one or more of those voiceless companions, and read the foregoing, and think."

"So we say farewell to a dear and faithful friend, whose virtues we remember — and dogs have few faults."

"Words, then, are not useful. Let us now enquire into their other quality, their positive quality, that is, their power to tell the truth."

"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."

Botticelli - The birth of Venus, detail (1485) Extracts from : Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter...

"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"The introverted attitude is characterized by detachment and by enjoyment of solitude and privacy."

"His own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."

"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."

"Emily Dickinson did not give up the world but neither could she find I herself in the world, so she retired from it."

"The writer Thomas Berry says that it's all a question of story. The story is the plot we assign to life and the universe..."

"There is a power in loneliness, a purity, self-immersion, and depth which is unlike any other experience."