Love Warps The Mind A Little Quotes & Sayings

Nations are more successful when their women are successful — Barack Obama

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless? — John Dufresne

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory. — Harry Mulisch

We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map.. — K.j. Force

It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different. — John Dufresne

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. — John Dufresne

There can only be two contexts of your life. Either you are the author of your life, or He (the Creator) is the author of your life.
People who feel that their creation is the responsibility of the Creator, find opportunities unexpectedly.
Those who feel that their lives are their own, have to fashion their own means. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement — Bret Harte

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant. — George Harrison

Every person in therapy has a love disorder. — John Dufresne

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall? — Frank Zappa

Fabulous. If you possess it, you don't need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it. Fabulous is one of those words that provide a measure of the degree to which a person or event manifests a particular oppressed subculture's most distinctive, invigorating features. What are the salient features of fabulousness? Irony. Tragic History. Defiance. Gender-fuck. Glitter. Drama. It is not butch. It is not hot. The cathexis surrounding fabulousness is not necessarily erotic. The fabulous is not delineated by age or beauty. It is raw materials reworked into illusion. To be truly fabulous, one must completely triumph over tragedy, age, and physical insufficiencies. The fabulous is the rapturous embrace of difference, the discovering of self not in that which has rejected you but in that which makes you unlike, the dislike, the other. — Tony Kushner

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ... — Reginald Horace Blyth

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right. — John Dufresne

Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other — John Dufresne

I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate ... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate. — John Dufresne

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it. — John Dufresne

Happiness is equal to work minus resistance. — Wolfgang Ostwald

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life. — John Dufresne

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart. — John Dufresne

We should not expect the Church as an organization to teach or tell us all of the things we need t know and do to become devoted disciples and endure valiantly to the end (see Doctrine and Covenants 121:29). The moral agency afforded to all of Father's children through the plan of salvation and the Atonement of Jesus Christ is divinely designed to facilitate our individual and independent learning, acting, and, ultimately, becoming — David A. Bednar

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable. — John Dufresne

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes. — Robert A. Heinlein

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do. — David Garrett