She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

Gore Vidal

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Source Unknown

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.http://www.eckhartsociety.org/meister.htm

Meister Eckhart, Talks of Instru

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

Cassandra Clare

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Jonathan Swift

The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Antonio Porchia

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Phyllis McGinley

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

E. B. White

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.[Henry V, Act IV Scene I]

William Shakespeare