Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that...
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Vera Nazarian
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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John Lennon
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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T.S. Eliot
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Kahlil Gibran
There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
More Quotes By Janet Turpin Myers
The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It’s a terrible condition, to feel one’s heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.
Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?
I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips. When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.
Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.
