Illumina Quotes

#1. To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.

Rumi

#2. Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#3. Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

Paul Gibbons

#4. Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

Maria Montessori

#5. Saying something to your child and then realizing that you sound like one of your own parents: deja vieux, mamamorphosis, mnemomic, patterfamilias, vox pop, nagativism, parentriloquism.

Steven Pinker

#6. Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Richard Wilbur

#7. To stop staring at you, I kept fiddling with the sugar until you stopped my hand with yours.

Daniel Handler

#8. Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

Frank Nugent

#9. Work hard, respect yourself, respect others, and never, ever turn your back on the needy.

J.B. Turner

#10. I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#12. The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Nicholas Johnson

#13. The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

Lord Acton