Gardamoxsna Quotes & Sayings

In May, she wrote to tell me that she was coming to New york or a week in June. She was going to stay with me, but her letters made it clear that the visit didnt mean a resumption for our old life. As the day approached, my agitation mounted. By the morning of her arrival, it had reached a pitch that felt something like an inner scream.The very thought that I would soon see Erica again didnt excite me as much as wound me. As I wandered around the loft trying to calm myself, I realized that I was holding my chest like a man who had just been stabbed. After sitting down, I tried to untangled that feeling of injury but couldnt do it - not fully. — Siri Hustvedt

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story
something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning. — Douglas Coupland

Dolphins Aren't Smiling A dolphin's "smile" is actually an illusion. So is our belief that these animals can heal. BY LORI MARINO FROM AEON MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH BY VINCENT J. MUSI/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE — Anonymous

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. — Jeb Bush

If I were you, I'd wake up every day at dawn to see the sun come up. Then I'd go back to bed. I'd screw a different woman every night and mean it when I told her I loved her. I'd read a mystery and stop halfway through so I'd have something to wonder about. I'd see how many grapes I could fit in my mouth. I'd drive a hundred miles an hour. I'd stay sober in the morning, drunk in the afternoon, high at night. I'd have Chinese food an tacos for dinner, spaghetti for breakfast and blueberry pie for lunch. Then I'd have anything I wanted in between, 'cause son" - here he took another hit, then looked at the ground, shaking his head - "pretty much all your choices are about to go away. — Jon Wells

That was the downside of loving someone so much. You throw your heart out there and hope nothing will yank it away and tear it to shreds. — S.C. Stephens

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. — Friedrick Engels

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all — David Mitchell

Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else. — Frederick Lenz

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. — Orrin Woodward

To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off — Maurice Blondel

I'm completely in love with her. I just don't know how to tell her because I'm afraid that as soon as I do, she'll run at full speed in the other direction. — Kristen Proby

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. — Alexander Graham Bell

His lips met mine again, this time in a slow, soft caress, conveying everything he had just said in those beautiful words that had reached my very soul. I could have drowned in that kiss. I could have lived there for eternity. It filled me up with everything I needed to survive. He gave me life through his lips and I treasured it. — Nicola Claire

Love isn't making others into the people we imagine they should be. It's about letting people be themselves — Katherine Longshore