30th Class Reunion Quotes

#1. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Franz Kafka

#2. There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually
about love and the way.
Those Egyptian women, when they saw Joseph,
they were not judging his handsomeness.
They were lost in it,
cutting their hands as they cut their food.

Rumi

#3. Make your failure the stepping-stone for success.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Only what?" I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. "Only ... more human." And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. "Get out," I said.

Richelle Mead

#5. Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson