Showing posts with label Madame de Staël. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madame de Staël. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Love attracts Love



Guy Finley: When we lose something, even a loving relationship that was special to us, the pain of our loss is not in the fact that the person, position, or possession is gone from our life. What we actually lose is... [continued]
"Perhaps at the moment the prevailing view is that which declines to separate body and mind in the way to which we have become accustomed since the days of Descartes. Man is something more than a carcass loosely coupled with a ghost." Professor Sir Cyril Burt,

Friday, May 30, 2014

Right Thinking.



"Search for the Truth is the noblest occupation of man. Its publication is a duty." Madame de Staël

As words are living things they always objectify. When the undesirable comes into our existence it shows us that we have been doing some wrong thinking. Fanny Louise Middleton Harley - 1895

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.



Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein ( 1766 –  1817 ), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.

“Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”