And Quotes
...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.
All language is an aspiration to music.
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.
But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?
People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.
The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.
I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.
I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I really need you here with me boy were going Round-and Round!
