Mrchenschinesekitchen Quotes

#1. Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion.

Marcel Proust

#2. Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

John Climacus

#3. Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos-
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health;
But pleasantest is it to win what we love.

Aristotle.

#4. Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

Joel Garreau

#5. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. 65It is God who sends water down from the sky and with it revives the earth when it is dead. There truly is a sign in this for people who listen.

Anonymous

#7. Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.

Sonia Sanchez

#8. You ... can ride a bike, can't you?"
"Sure I can," I said, getting onto one of the squeaky things. "At least I used to be able to. Haven't done it in years, but it's like riding a bike, right?"
"Technically, yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.

Jen Violi

#10. I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

Rafael Nadal

#11. The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

David Markson

#12. Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.

Carlos Wallace

#13. I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

Robert Barany