Count Platen Quotes

#1. At first it seems
as if begoing follows becoming.
But look even closer
and you will see
that there are only
flashes of lightning
illuminating the empty sky.

Adyashanti

#2. Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Marcel Duchamp

#3. We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

Wayne Dyer

#4. And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#5. The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.

Zakes Mda

#6. The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Jeff Ross

#8. Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

Khalil Gibran

#9. To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

Alvin Plantinga

#10. Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

Marie Forleo

#11. The weakest spot in a good defence is designed to fail. It falls, but in falling it summons the next defence and so on. It's all about layers. At the end of it all you'll find yourself facing the thing you sought to avoid all along, only now you're weaker, and it's forewarned.

Mark Lawrence

#12. She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all the things you felt you could no longer have.

Elizabeth Berg

#13. Dishtowels are the same as they always were. Sometimes these flashes of normality

Margaret Atwood

#14. Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

Tucker Carlson