"To break the spell of self-deception is one of the greatest moral triumphs a human being — or a society, or a civilization — can claim."

~Emil Cioran

“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.”

~Thomas Merton

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves - in their depravity - design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes, but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

~Homer, The Odyssey

"Who owns the youth, owns the future."

~Austrian Painter

"Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets. The wars of the peoples will be more terrible than those of kings."

~Winston Churchill

"The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty by a wall of erudition."

"Beauty has been stolen from the people and sold back to them under the concept of luxury."

~Sir Roger Scruton

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."

~C.S. Lewis

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

~Charles Baudelaire

"The battle for the soul is as brutal as the battles of men."

~Arthur Rimbaud

"We do not want a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world."

~G.K. Chesterton

"A religion that doesn't interfere with the secular order, will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it."

~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the strength of my soul, whom I have tried to set forth in all his beauty, and who has always been, and always will be most beautiful is – the truth."

~Leo Tolstoy

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."

~Khalil Gibran

"Your life on earth is narrowed everywhere. Everything betrays you: people, wealth, the pleasures of the senses, even your own body will abandon you. All the elements of nature deceive you. So, see to cleave only to God, for only He is love."

+Saint John of Kronstadt

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Faith does not set aside natural duties, but perfects and strengthens them.” — Johann Albrecht Bengel

“Sweet is war to those who know it not.”

~Pindar