Eranos Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Just as life will upend you, so will love. — Christine Caine

Buy clothes the size you want to wear. — Karl Lagerfeld

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world. — Robert Caro

The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan. — Henry F. Schaefer, III

Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me? — Daniel Suarez

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more. — Dora Russell

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. — Kirsty Coventry

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope. — Epictetus

God, everything about him radiated sex, from the strength in his body to the way he moved to the smell of his skin. — J.R. Ward

if your eyes are marred
with petty visions
wash them with tears
your teardrops are healers
as they begin to arrive — Jalaluddin Rumi