Quotes of Franz Werfel

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The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

- Franz Werfel

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“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo