It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Albert Einstein

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.

Medard Boss

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Jodi Picoult

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Tony Alesandra

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world...I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom... ...and I've decided you're a pillock.

Roger Kettle

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

William Penn

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliott

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Hector Hugh Munro

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

Source Unknown

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...

Paulo Coelho