Bicycle Wedding Quotes & Sayings

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart. — Elizabeth Lesser

She was so far out of my league that we were practically on different continents. And yet I'd never longed for anything as much as I longed for her. I wanted to be good enough for her; I wanted her to want me. — Kirsty Moseley

Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts. — Michael Hudson

The most serious injury is done in childhood. Our cruel waste of the nerve force of children is only more pathetic than it is absurd. The mere business of growing up ... which should be a process unconscious or full of joy and rich accumulation, is made by our ignorant mishandling a confusing, irritating, exhausting process, often leaving permanent injuries to the machine, as well as waste of power. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I want to get people thinking. — James De La Vega

For strict fundamentalists of the Bible, the theory and what follows from it seal them off from unwanted information, and in that way their actions are invested with meaning, clarity, and, they believe, moral authority. Those who reject the Bible's theory and who believe, let us say, in the theory of Science are also protected from unwanted information. Their theory, for example, instructs them to disregard information about astrology, dianetics, and creationism, which they usually label as medieval superstition or subjective opinion. Their theory fails to give any guidance about moral information and, by definition, gives little weight to information that falls outside the constraints of science. — Neil Postman

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Tomorrow doesn't exist, yesterday is gone. The more I remind myself of that, the stronger I feel. — Liam Hemsworth

Kurt left in the early morning to walk around Aberdeen in the pale light of dawn. The storm had passed, birds were chirping, and everything in the world seemed more alive. He walked around for hours thinking about it all, waiting for school to begin, watching the sun come up, wondering where his life was heading. — Charles R. Cross

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer — Bangambiki Habyarimana

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like. — Chris Mohr

Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park. — Marcel Proust

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies. — Grace Slick