Teresa of %c3%a1vila/early Life

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    “Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
    —Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    “St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”
    —Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    “Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
    —Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    “Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)