💬 Quotes

"Conversion for Francis was not a one-time event, but a lifelong process of 'beginning again' each day with greater humility."

"He saw the world not as a place to be rejected, but as a theater where the glory of God was constantly being revealed through the smallest of creatures."

"Peace was not just the absence of conflict for Francis; it was the active pursuit of reconciliation, rooted in the mercy he had so freely received."

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man sometime."

"Can't repeat the past?… Why of course you can!"

"Her voice is full of money."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life."

"Sabe que más vale la pena ser buen caballero que ignorar los peligros, porque la locura que se busca por propia voluntad no es locura, sino valentía."

"La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre."

"El sueño es el alivio de las miserias para los que las tienen despiertos."

"Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama."

"Sábete, Sancho, que no es un hombre más que otro si no hace más que otro."

"Se ve claramente que la historia de mi vida ha de ser escrita por algún sabio encantador; que los tales no se detienen en escribir las menudencias, por muy ocultas que sean."

"Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence."

"The art of life is to adjust ourselves readily to the changing circumstances of the day and to continue in peace."

"True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete."

"Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others."

"Teaism is a religion of the art of life; it is a tender attempt to cheat the inevitable, to make a moment's beauty endure."