The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Tony Parsons

Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today?

Source Unknown

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayso

kedewasaan seseorang: setelah menemukan kembali keseriusaan yang pernah dimilikinya saat masih kanakkanak, saat sedang bermain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So that here we have, really, the compound, the overall philosophy of Lincoln: in all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the peoples money or their economy, or their form of government, be conservativeand dont be afraid to use the word. And so today, Republicans come forward with programs in which there are such words as balanced budgets, and cutting expenditures, and all the kind of thing that means this economy must be conservative, it must be solvent. But they also come forward and say we are concerned with every Americans health, with a decent house for him, we are concerned that he will have a chance for health, and his children for education. We are going to see that he has power available to him. We are going to see that everything takes place that will enrich his life and let him as an individual, hard-working American citizen, have full opportunity to do for his children and his family what any decent American should want to do.

Dwight D Eisenhower

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Alexander Pope

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

JeanAnthelme BrillatSavarin

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Frederick W. Faber

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

Al Yankovic

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Nelson Mandela