The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Will Durant

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

Gary Numan

Another kind of love and compassion is not based on something appearing beautiful or nice, but based on the fact that the other person, just like oneself, wants happiness and does not want suffering and indeed has every right to be happy and to overcome suffering. On such a basis, we feel a sense of responsibility, a sense of closeness toward that being. That is true compassion. This is because the compassion is based on reason, notjust on emotional feeling. As a consequence, it does not matter what the other's attitude is, whether negative, or positive. What matters is that it is a human being, a sentient being that has the experience of pain and pleasure. There is no reason not to feel compassion so long as it is a sentient being.

Dalai Lama, The Dalai Lama, A Po

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

Dannye Williamsen

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

David Herbert Lawrence

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Zora Neale Hurston

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

Bertrand Russell

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist.

Elizabeth Kay