Well - Quotes
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.
It`s almost here
And we can`t wait
So ring the bells and celebrate
`Cause when the full moon starts to climb
We`ll all sing out
It`s Christmastime.
The Nightmare Before Christmas (movie)
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Once basic human needs for food/shelter/health care/education/social justice are fairly well met, people lose their need for religion.
Well, that`s what love is like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you`re not careful, if you don`t keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can`t see what`s happening to the people around you. You can`t see that you`re about to fall.
Love? Well, yes. There are so many kinds. There’s eros: simplest and most transient of all. There’s philia: friendship; loyalty. There’s storge: the affection a child gives its parents. There’s thelema: the desire to perform. Then there’s agape: platonic love; for a friend; for a world; love for a stranger you’ve never met; the love of all humanity.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who`s ahead, who`s stronger. Well, that`s the kind of situation we are actually in.
If you`re not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown-up. Even worse, you`ll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. I`ve met a lot of people, I`ve read a lot of books, and that`s the absolute truth.