49th Anniversary Quotes & Sayings

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. — Gautama Buddha

Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging. — Amanda Leigh

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead. — Samantha Sotto

I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something ... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad. — Eckhart Tolle

I maintained a tactical silence. When you maintain a tactical silence and look people right in the eye, as if drinking in their words, they talk. People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows
every researcher, every writer, every spy. — Michel Houellebecq

It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do. — Vincent De Paul

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet. — Vladimir Nabokov

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with. — Peter Elbow

Men come, men go, all things remain in God. — Van Morrison

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts — Salman Rushdie

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet. — Amber Heard

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for. — Zelda Fitzgerald

OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me. — William Meikle