What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Once when I was lost . . . I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, Do you think we'll ever find them? He said, I don't know kid . . . there are so many places they can hide.

Rodney Dangerfield

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment

Child! Do not throw this book about;Refrain from the unholy pleasureOf cutting all the pictures out!Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

Hilaire Belloc, dedication to Th

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Thomas Becket

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

Emily Maguire

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Harry Browne

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Jonathan Safran Foer