Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Friedrich Nietzsche

All ideas come from sensation or reflection.--Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.

John Locke, An Essay Concerning

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

Deepak Chopra

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

Neil Gaiman

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

G. W. F. Hegel

Who should I send for now?Using the last of his strength, Sebastian managed to drag her hand up to his mouth. You, he whispered, holding her fingers to his lips. Just you.

Lisa Kleypas

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

William Feather

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont