Prelinguistic Quotes & Sayings

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. — Swami Satchidananda

I only want to talk to you. The robbers are all in bed by now. Drunks, drifters, and poets are the only ones up this late at night. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve? — Nick Offerman

If the lifestyle choices outlined in this book were uniformly adopted, the savings in suffering and health care costs would be tremendous. — Tim Loy

Every kid dreams of playing in the NFL or MLB and I was that 27-year-old that dreamed of fighting in the UFC. It was kind of surreal to see that I have actually accomplished what I set out to do. It's better than I could have ever imagined. — Charlie Brenneman

Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive. — Ettore Bugatti

There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the end I gave in, because I was disarmed by the spontaneity of giving and understood tha Lucie cared for it; perhaps her tongue-tied state, her lack of verbal eloquence, made her think of flowers as a form of speech; not in the sense of heavy-handed conventional flower symbolism, but in a sense still more archaic, more nebulous, more instinctive, prelinguistic; perhaps, having always been sparing of words, she longed for that mute stage of evolution when there were no words and people communicated by simple gestures — Milan Kundera