The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Christina Westover

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.

George Eliot

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Sydney J. Harris

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Larry Niven

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

Source Unknown

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

Josh Lanyon

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Angelo Scola

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

Marilu Henner

The merciful shall obtain mercy.

Bible

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lamb

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.published in the collection The Wind Among the Reeds and quoted in the movie Equilibrium (2002)

William Butler Yeats, He wishes