Windups Quotes & Sayings

From dreams of bliss shall men awake
one day, but not to weep:
the dreams remain; they only break
the mirror of their sleep. — John Paul Richter

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them. — Jonathan Hale

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that. — Jonathan Safran Foer

As Stephen Levine says, "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. — Nina Angela McKissock

Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice. — Jeff Strand

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it. — Alan Cohen