Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn???t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the pi

Under the name of truth I also included beauty, virtue, and every kind of goodness, so that for me it was a question of a conception of the relationship between grace and desire. The conviction that had come to me was that when one hungers for bread one does not receive stones. But at that time I had not read the Gospel.Just as I was certain that desire has in itself an efficacy in the realm of spiritual goodness whatever its form, I thought it was also possible that it might not be effective in any other realm.http://www.rivertext.com/weil3a.html

Simone Weil, letter written in M

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Jean Giraudoux

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

John Green

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Ambrose Bierce

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Martin Lewis Perl

Children and fools speak true

Proverb

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Roy Orbison

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer