Manilagift Quotes & Sayings

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer. — David Eddings

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true. — Elbert Hubbard

I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be. — John Baldessari