Proprerly Quotes & Sayings

Getting old is the second-biggest surprise of my life, but the first, by a mile, is our unceasing need for deep attachment and intimate love. We oldies yearn daily and hourly for conversation and a renewed domesticity, for company at the movies or while visiting a museum, for someone close by in the car when coming home at night. — Roger Angell

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure. — Thomas A Kempis

Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen proprerly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly foolish, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise - we are already wise. — Chogyam Trungpa

Retirement homes are never lovely places. The food is usually overcooked, the carpet stained from overactive bowels, and the smell of hand lotion, cheap perfume, and urine never really leaves the place, no matter how many times the beds are washed and the walls are scrubbed. They are a place of holding, a purgatory to the not-yet-dead. — Jennifer Arnett

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Sometimes I can still sleep it off, my fear. My dreams are gentle now even when they are about being mugged, robbed and knocked down, even when I am pressing my car key into a bit of yielding earth. But often in the afternoons I wake after a nap with an awful sense of its being over and that it never meant much; I never had a life. The valuable sweetness and the hard work are infected by the fact of death: they no longer seem to have been so wonderful, but they are all I had. And then I want to be comforted. I want my old, unthreatening forms of silence, and comedy-and-cowardice. I want breath and stories and the world. — Harold Brodkey

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation. — Khem Veasna

Let your spirit be great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Word-sniffing ... is an addiction, like glue
or snow
sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically ... As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness ... — M.F.K. Fisher

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do ... — E.W. Howe

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players. — Nellie L. McClung

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. — Ernest Renan

Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. — C.S. Lewis

It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most. — Donna Smallin

After visiting the Krupp factories, the Turkish party spent ten days in Berlin, where Vahdettin told a German journalist that women had begun to work in public in Turkey, and that although progress was slow, 'we are making the effort to give equal rights to our women'.88 Mustafa Kemal was not alone in favouring women's emancipation in the Ottoman state. — Andrew Mango