Lunivers Quotes & Sayings

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind. — Martha Beck

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What happened was: they became a team, a family of two. There had been times before they ran away when they acted like a team, but those were very different from feeling like a team. Becoming a team didn't mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it caring. You could even call it love. And it is very rarely, indeed, that it happens to two people at the same time
especially a brother and a sister who had always spent more time with activities than they had with each other. — E.L. Konigsburg

It is not the fame, not the flesh, not the money. We want something else, something pretty. — Debasish Mridha

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something. — Vannevar Bush

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. — Pete Du Pont

Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now she dimly discerned before her, not the path that kind funny old Waddington had spoken of that led nowhither, but the path those dear nuns at the convent followed so humbly, the path that led to peace. — W. Somerset Maugham

I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth. — Farley Mowat

Stop," he ordered, in a low but compelling voice. "Do not take another step, or I fire! Dash it," he added vexedly, "does the monstrosity understand English? How absurd this is!"

"It understands the gesture, at least," I called, thrusting head and shoulders through the window. "Lucas, for pity's sake, seize it! Don't stand there deriding its linguistic inadequacies! — Elizabeth Peters

In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she — Algernon Charles Swinburne