Geheimnis Brahms Quotes & Sayings

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone. — Eliza Coupe

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages — John Piper

If you want to be happy, work with all your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For the past thirty-nine years since I had graduated from college, I had called my parents on Sundays. They had expected and looked forward to the ritual. After Dad died, I still called Mom on Sundays. Most of the time I dreaded the call because she had become more and more insular and was full of complaints about the assisted living facility, the other residents, her health, everything. She had become narrow in her interests in life, more negative, more critical, and unhappier. I was reminded of something I had heard from a psychologist about what happens as we age. He said we become more of who we are, not less. Our energy to fight back the negative attributes we all possess is not as strong as we get older. So we can become more cantankerous, more irritable. I also remembered what my father had often said: "There but for the grace of God go I." That Sunday I placed the — Janis Heaphy Durham

The doctor said the wound was superficial. The old cob didn't know what "superficial" meant, but it sounded serious. — E.B. White

You're free this evening, Barbele. You just don't want to come. — Hermann Hesse

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill