Under - Quotes
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn`t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
We are all brothers under the skin. And I for one would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
We all live under the same sky, but we don`t all have the same horizon.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy`s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. The dead don't care about pretty flowers and carved marble statues.