one transcendent kissthat later makes lovers takesoft breaths, holding hands

Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linn

Nicholas Murray Butler, The Revo

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

Cuando recordamos que todos somos locos, la vida queda explicada

Mark Twain

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Leo Tolstoy

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Lord Chesterfield

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

John Jay Chapman

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver