"Whatever is received is received according to..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”

“There can be no joy in living without joy in work.”

“The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.”

“Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.”

“... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.”

“What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.”

“The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.”

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.”