Olvidado Quotes & Sayings

You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points. — Kathe Koja

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. — John Burroughs

There is no man," [the painter Elstir] began, "however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man - so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise - unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded. . . We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world."
Marcel Proust
Within a Budding Grove (translated by C. Scott Moncrieff) — Marcel Proust

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer

Screamed like a manic cheerleader heaping encouragement on her high school's punt returner as he breaks through the first wall of blocks. — Dennis Vickers

Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology. — Erich Fromm

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy. — Anne Lamott

It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness. — Gayle Forman

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from? — Morgan Matson

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin. — John Legend