The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Marilynne Robinson

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.

John Hagee

There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.

Orson Scott Card

This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the most heavily upon the soldier. For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his countrys cause. The highest merit, then, is due to the soldier.

Abraham Lincoln

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Jane Austen

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Willa Cather

The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.

Bruce Lee

Y cada vez, después de la pasión satisfecha y del amor renovado nos dormimos muy juntos sin importarnos dónde empieza uno ni termina el otro, ni de quién son estas manos o estos pies, en tan perfecta complicidad que nos encontramos en los sueños y al otro día no sabemos quién soñó a quién, y cuando uno se mueve entre las sábanas el otro se acomoda en los ángulos y curvas, y cuando uno suspira el otro suspira y cuando uno despierta el otro despierta también.

Isabel Allende

I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...Yes, they do that, said Dumbledore.

J.K. Rowling

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

Ursula K. LeGuin

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Cheryl Strayed