A1os Quotes & Sayings

The life of a man of virtue and talent, who should die in his thirtieth year, is, with regard to his own feelings, longer than that of a miserable Priest-ridden slave, who dreams out a century of dulness. The one has perpetually cultivated his mental faculties, has rendered himself master of his thoughts, can abstract and generalize amid the lethargy of every-day business;--the other can slumber over the brightest moments of his being, and is unable to remember the happiest hour of his life. Perhaps the perishing ephemeron enjoys a longer life than the tortoise. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture. — Neneh Cherry

I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded. — Shia Labeouf

I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted. — Glenn Tipton

I can do nothing for you but work on myself ... you can do nothing for me but work on yourself! — Ram Dass

Last night, walking on the heath, she and I, alive, condescended toward the stars.
For then we knew quite surely that all the pother of the universe was but a prelude to that summer night and our uniting, and all the ages to come but a cadence after our loving.
Nestled down into the heather, we laughed, and took joy of one another, justifying the cosmic enterprise for ever by the moments of our caressing, while the simple stars watched unseeing.
Thus lovers, nations, worlds, nay galaxies, conceive themselves the crest of all that is. — Olaf Stapledon

The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony. — Morihei Ueshiba

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. — Michael Enzi

I tried to appear more normal than I was, so that those around me wouldn't think I was less normal than I was, and that suited them just fine. — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer. — Joey Lawsin