W.S. Gilbert Quotes
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.
We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.
Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.
It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.
You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.
Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?