Vida Privada Quotes & Sayings

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months. — Richard Whately

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment ... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection. — Steve Maraboli

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy. — Edwin Markham

I still can't talk about it," he said
"Duck." Dirk touched his cheek
"I remember, later, my mom trying to run into the water and I'm trying to hold her back and her hair and my tears are so bright that I'm blind. I knew she would have walked right into the ocean after him and kept going. In a way I wanted to go too. — Francesca Lia Block

The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East. — Aurora Levins Morales

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive. — Eknath Easwaran

The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a 'like' and 'dislike' occurs due to illusion, because everyone's viewpoint is different. — Dada Bhagwan

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved. — Romain Rolland

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies. — Edmund Spenser

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation. — Lynne Truss

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them. — John Corey Whaley

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. — Michael Hansmeyer

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God. — Orson Scott Card

I was as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, — Lila M Beckham