Helderberg Quotes & Sayings

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up ... These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with. — Mark Twain

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime. — Paul Simon

The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone — Oliver Sacks

I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve. — Dave Eggers

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking. — Jojo Moyes

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad. — Joyce Meyer

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy. — Bertolt Brecht

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch. — A.P. Herbert

Linus closes his eyes and puts his arms out at his sides. "Look to this day. For it is life. The very life of life." I stand beside him. Quiet. He continues. "It its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The splendor of beauty, the bliss of growth, the glory of action. Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope." He opens his eyes and looks at me. "It's an ancient Sufi text." He smiles. "My mantra." He folds his paper, bats me over the head with it and walks away. — Dana Reinhardt