“This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.”
Hafiz
“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Hafiz
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
Rumi
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
Rumi
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jose Luis Borges
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
-- Jean Zheng
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-- Cicero
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
-- Pearl S. Buck
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength."
-- St. Francis de Sale
We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is Man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him a Man.
--Albert Schweitzer
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.