Liking Butterflies Quotes & Sayings

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace. — Epictetus

There isn't a name for my situation. Firstly because I decided to kill myself. And then because of this idea:
I don't have to do it immediately.
Whoosh, through a little door. It's a limbo.
I need never answer the phone again or pay a bill. My credit score no longer matters. Fears and compulsions don't matter. Socks don't matter. Because I'll be dead. And who am I to die? A microwave chef. A writer of pamphlets. A product of our time. A failed student. A faulty man. A bad poet. An activist in two minds. A drinker of chocolate milk, and when there's no chocolate, of strawberry and sometimes banana. — D.B.C. Pierre

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour. — Morris Gleitzman

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie — Deborah Heiligman

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas. — Matthew Specktor

They'd peck themselves to death, rather than quit. Who knew what worked? I — Margaret Atwood

If a street has a spirit, no matter how narrow it is, we can breathe comfortably over there. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs. — Gale Gordon

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of — Lleyton Hewitt

From the necks up ... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra. — Tera Lynn Childs

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. — Julian Fellowes

Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised. — Lewis Nordan

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing. — Sheila Heti

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards. — Steven Magee