“Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998);
author, professor
“Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998);
author, professor
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
I became insane with long intervals of terrible sanity - Edgar Allan Poe
For life is not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis.
'Caesar:
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.'
William Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar', I.2
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888);
novelist
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
Behind every silver lining is a dark cloud
-George Carlin
for now:
to be, or not to be. ---Shakespeare
There is some guy called Anon who gets quoted a lot. This is one of my favourites;
Start the day with a smile and get it over with.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
"sure, the picture is in my eye, but i am also in the picture."
(lacan, the four fundamental concepts of psycho-analisis, pg63)
"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
-Anne Rice
"I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking."
I love that.Originally Posted by Sine_lege
...but I like it because it is bitter, and because it is my heart - Stephen Crane
'When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other' Chinese proverb
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed. ~Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
~Hemingway
"Mother died today, may be yesterday. I cannot be sure."
ALBERT CAMUS in The Outsider
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that"
~Saul Bellow
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