Hielos Perpetuos Quotes & Sayings

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I'm about to lose my eyesight and she can't handle it. — John Green

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Don't ask why. Just accept it. — Cass Swenson

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. — Samuel Johnson

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. — Douglas Horton

Everything may be black and white in your world, but in reality there's a hell of a lot of gray. — K.J. McPike

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life. — William DeWitt Hyde

To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. — Joseph Fort Newton

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity. — Thomas Steinbeck

Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy. — Adam Sandler

Thus, as I review the list of my friends and acquaintances, most of them emerge as stained with maniac stigmata of one sort or another. I begin to feel considerably reassured. The truth may simply be that human society is no more than a massing of lunatics. — Soseki Natsume

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever