We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and... glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among so many of our contemporaries. Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one's self away from that half of the race life is to shut one's self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've almost gained my heav'nly home; My spirit loudly sings; The holy ones behold they come, I hear the noise of wings.... O come, angel band, Come and around me stand. O bear me away on your snowy wings, To my immortal home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at ra...ndom. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everythi...ng takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world ... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care... Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died,... And tear the heart out of his side, And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating heart away;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »