In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings, By contemplation of diviner things.

Matthew Arnold

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.Also seen as: You cannot prevent the birds of worry and care from flying over your head. But you can stop them from building a nest in your head.

Chinese Proverb

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Elliot

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

I had the bluesbecause I had no shoesuntil upon the street,I met a man who had no feet.

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And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep.Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.

Steven R. Boyett

was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.

Leo Tolstoy

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Douglas Adams

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

Tallulah Bankhead

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Andrew Cohen

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

Pitbull