“Be thankful for the thorns and thistles which keep you from being in love with this world.”
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has by his preventing grace kept me from publicly disgracing the Christian profession. O my soul, praise the Lord, and forget not all his mercies.
—William Wilberforce
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, while pain and guilt still linger here below, blindness and numbness–these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
—Michelangelo
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
—Henry Ford
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
—Michelangelo
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
—Thomas Aquinas
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.
—Thomas Aquinas
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
—Charles Dickens
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It is necessary to keep one ‘s compass in one ‘s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
—Michelangelo
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
—Seneca
“So, if we are afraid that the devil should get in among us let us always in prayer entreat that there may be no space for the devil, because the Lord Jesus Christ fills all, and keeps out the adversary.”
– Charles Spurgeon
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
—Charles Dickens
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
—Pablo Picasso
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
—Sigmund Freud
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
—George Washington
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
“Warm-hearted saints keep each other warm, but cold is also contagious.”
— Charles Spurgeon
I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that. They just keep smiling.
—Charlie Chaplin
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
Christ is not only God above us; which may keep us in awe, but cannot save; but he is Immanuel, God with us, and in us.
—John Wesley
The cross covers, the blood cleanses, and His eternal love will keep that which we have committed unto Him, until that day. Is not this a good word with which to end the year?
—Amy Carmichael
What must heaven keep in store for us if earth can offer us such unimaginable beauty?
—Amy Carmichael