I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Josh Billings

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

Lawrence Durrell

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.

Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The life to themselves and their families stands between them and the recognition of their need; He makes that life less sweet to them.If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.

C.S. Lewis

I really love singing.

Andrea Corr

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Anna Paquin

The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.

Sorin Cerin

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Thomas Carlyle