Obon Holiday Quotes & Sayings

As Walt Whitman says, "I am sufficient as I am." It is sufficient that I live - and am probably going to live for another few decades - and that human life exists. Viewed that way, the problem becomes amazingly simple and admits of no two answers. What can be the end of human life except the enjoyment of it? — Lin Yutang

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. — Charles Du Bos

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am. — Dejan Stojanovic

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. — Paulo Coelho

It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally understand all three of the dimensions in Kafka: that a man could be a sweet, sympathetic, comically needy victim and a lascivious, self-aggrandizing, grudge-bearing bore, and also, crucially, a third thing: a flickering consciousness, a simultaneity of culpable urge and poignant self-reproach, a person in process. — Jonathan Franzen

Never pick up a stray kitten ... unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it. — Robert A. Heinlein

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me. — Anne Stuart