Aftertouch Quotes & Sayings

Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up. — Joseph Heller

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite. — Henri Frederic Amiel

In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon. — Peter Nichols

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. — Juliette Fay

[T]he flower is made of non-flower elements. We can describe the flower as being full of everything. There is nothing that is not present in the flower. We see sunshine, we see the rain, we see clouds, we see the earth, and we also see time and space in the flower.
A flower, like everything else, is made entirely of non-flower elements. The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself, The flower is full of everything except one thing: a separate self, a separate identity.
The flower cannot be by herself alone. The flower has to inter-be with the sunshine, the cloud and everything in the cosmos. If we understand being in terms of inter-being, then we are much closer to the truth. Inter-being is not being and it is not non-being. Inter-being means being empty of a separate identity, empty of a separate self, — Thich Nhat Hanh

Make taking care of yourself your top priority every single day, day after day and you will see that all the other people and chores fall into proper place. — Toni Sorenson

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet. — Helen Keller

Faith is the ability to endure. — Michael R. French

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. — Pierre Salinger

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. — Billy Corgan

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. — Gautama Buddha

All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not. — Maral Boyadjian

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When Love And Jealousy
Collide On The Slopes,
Winter Break Turns Deadly — Richelle Mead

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead. — John Oliver

It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today. — Suzanne Collins