Loughton Van Quotes & Sayings

Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it ... And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you! ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that. — Mavis Staples

The course and affairs of our individual life, in view of their true meaning and connection, are like a piece of crude work in mosaic. So long as one stands close in front of it, one can not correctly see the objects presented, or perceive their importance and beauty; it is only by standing some distance away that both come into view. And in the same way one often understands the true connection of important events in one's own life, not while they are happening, or even immediately after they have happened, but only a long time afterwards. — Arthur Schopenhauer

You mentioned ... one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What ... is the other?"
"The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space? — Neal Stephenson

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. — Mikhail Naimy

Being dead had it's advantages — Kevin Given

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe