In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Isabel Allende

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Rashida Jones

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Abraham Ibn Esra

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird?

Source Unknown

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Scottish Proverb

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Andrea Dworkin