#entry

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#beauty #distinctions #entry #find #front

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#championship #committee #compete #conditions #entry

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

There is beauty in the midst of tragedy. As if beauty were condensing in the heart of ugliness. It's very strange. ↗

— Hélène Berr

#beauty

I really don't know what's happened to me, but I have changed from top to toe. I am living in a strange mixture of memories of yesterday and today. ↗

— Hélène Berr

#change

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#father #handy #him #house #i

No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.” Nick did not bother trying to deny it. “I was going to be so much smarter than you,” he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. “I prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a man’s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#nick-gentry #romance #sir-cannon #intelligence

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#people

With six pieces of wood, I’m building a life, and my coffin.
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— Jarod Kintz

#carpentry #coffin #construction #death #life