Estoicismo Frases Quotes & Sayings

I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects of the so-called hostilities. At the end of the war I was just one year old, so I can hardly have any impressions of that period of destruction based on personal experience. Yet to this day, when I see photographs or documentary films dating from the war I feel as if I were its child, so to speak, as if those horrors I did not experience cast a shadow over me ... I see pictures merging before my mind's eye - paths through the fields, river meadows, and mountain pastures mingling with images of destruction - and oddly enough, it is the latter, not the now entirely unreal idylls of my early childhood, that make me feel rather as if I were coming home ... — W.G. Sebald

If you wish to study a granfalloon, Just remove the skin of a toy balloon. — Kurt Vonnegut

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with! — David Mitchell

I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park. — Megan Hilty

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction. — James Frey

In time, you'll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty's sake. — Scott Lynch

If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later. — Karl Rove

Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet table. We want pain to stay in its own little section, want to keep it from spilling over into the other parts of life. Just like . lunch trays. Keep pain in its own little compartment. — Philip Gulley

I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh. — Dreama Walker

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. — Colman McCarthy

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Miracles do happen. — Nicholas Sparks