Seigneurs Des Quotes & Sayings

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here ... — Jeffrey Kluger

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet? — Steven Wright

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end ... — Dan Wells

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness. — Jonathan Franzen

It is difficult to live in such a way that all our relationships are in effective control, and usually it doesn't make that much difference as long as some relationships are satisfying. But when you get sick, it is a good idea to review all of them. Some may be more rankling than you are willing to admit. You can review these relationships by yourself; with the help of a friend or family member you trust; with your doctor if he or she can give you the time; or, best of all, with the aid of a good counselor. — William Glasser

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves. — Roy Blount Jr.

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot. — Jane Hirshfield

We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived. — Michelle Richmond

It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried - and during those times he leaned over to wipe away her tears. — Sarah J. Maas

I feel like I'm the winner. I really do. — Carrie Prejean

If you want to be in optimum emotional health, realize that social isolation stands between you and it. Reach out to others. Join groups - to drum, meditate, sing, sew, read, whatever. Find communities - to garden, do service work, travel, whatever. We humans are social animals. Spontaneous happiness is incompatible with social isolation. Period. — Andrew Weil