Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

— Blaise Pascal, Human Happiness

No feelings, however profound, ever bring us nearer to God or God to us. In the same way, no lack of feelings can take us away from God. When all impressions fail, leaving us in “dryness, darkness, and desolation,” we should not even for a moment think that God is far from us. Nothing can separate us from the love that holds us in being, least of all our feelings. This is why St John of the Cross says that God is nearest to us when we are least aware of it.

— Chris E. W. Green

I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.

— Andy Bernard, The Office

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

— Blaise Pascal

It is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, but God Who chooses to awaken us.

— Thomas Merton

Life doesn’t make sense

It bends and breaks you

You numb yourself but

This lack of feeling only hurts

Feeling is lost

There is no joy without pain

There is no need for hope

Without darkness

Innocence is lost

To be gained once more

To be a child is to be in awe

And that brings sense to life again