“Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila”
Rigoberto González (1970) American writer
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (2006)
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
“Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila”
Rigoberto González (1970) American writer
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (2006)
“Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.”
Robert Pollok book The Course of Time
Book i, line 464.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 220-221]
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
Source: Man: The Dwelling Place of God (1992), p. 56-57.
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon III : The Angel's Greeting
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all. It is essential to God to give, for His essence is His goodness and His goodness is His love. Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God. If the earth flee downward from heaven, it finds heaven beneath it; if it flee upward, it comes again to heaven. The earth cannot flee from heaven: whether it flee up or down, the heaven rains its influence upon it, and stamps its impress upon it, and makes it fruitful, whether it be willing or not. Thus doth God with men: whoever thinketh to escape Him, flies into His bosom, for every corner is open to Him. God brings forth His Son in thee, whether thou likest it or not, whether thou sleepest or wakest; God worketh His own will. That man is unaware of it, is man's fault, for his taste is so spoilt by feeding on earthly things that he cannot relish God's love. If we had love to God, we should relish God, and all His works; we should receive all things from God, and work the same works as He worketh.
Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901) Bishop of Minnesota
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 618.
“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief