L Art De Vivre Quotes & Sayings

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart. — Elizabeth Lesser

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in. — Narendra Modi

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. — Robert Rauschenberg

Don't look for a black cat in a dark room, especially if it is not there ... — Confucius

I'm just a girl from Amsterdam. It's a small city. Everybody knows Amsterdam, but it's still a small city. To come from there, to work with Will. i. am ... it's like, 'What happened?! What did I do right?' — Eva Simons

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. — John Engler

Guns might not kill people, but they sure made it easier. — Rick Yancey

Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does not break with it, is linked to a comfortable practice of reading.
Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain
boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.
Now the subject who keeps the two texts in his field and in his hands the reins of pleasure and bliss is an anachronic subject, for he simultaneously and contradictorily participates in the profound hedonism of all culture (which permeates him quietly under the cover of an "art de vivre" shared by the old books) and in the destruction of that culture: he enjoys the consistency of his selfhood (that is his pleasure) and seeks its loss (that is his bliss). He is a subject split twice over, doubly perverse. — Roland Barthes

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say. — Joyce Banda

We might not be grateful for all things, but we can be grateful in all moments — Toni Sorenson

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera. — Giles Duley

What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children. — Toni Morrison

All things flow, nothing abides. — Heraclitus