Gilberteswann Quotes & Sayings

All I could remember was her smile. Unable to picture the loved face, however strenuously I tried to make myself remember it, I was for ever irritated to find that my memory had retained exact replicas of the striking and futile faces of the roundabout man and the barley-sugar woman, just as the bereaved, who each night search their dreams in vain for the lost beloved, will find their sleep is peopled by all manner of exasperating and unbearable intruders, whom they have always found, even in the waking world, more than dislikable. Faced with the impossibility of seeing clearly the object of their grief, they come close to accusing themselves of not grieving, just as I was tempted to believe that my inability to remember the features of Gilberte's face meant that I had forgotten her and had stopped loving her. — Marcel Proust

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. — Anthony De Mello

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can. — Isaac Asimov

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. — Robin Hobb

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. — Ted Turner

The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart. — Allan Lokos