“Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.” Quote by Lori Palatnik
“I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet, within our reach, is joy. Take Joy.” WorldGivingHeartI CanTodayJoyLyingFunHeavenBehindsShadowInstantGloomSalute Author:Giovanni Giocondo
“Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all.” BelieveHardHandsEarthLife IsPurposeFunHeavenWonderJudgingDutySorrowAngelClaimsCastsUglyHeavyTrialsWelcomeGenerousRemoveBelieve In MeGiverCoveringWovenSplendorCloaksOvershadowing Author:Giovanni Giocondo
“The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.” Has BeensSelfStatesFunGoalSelf RealizationRealizationReachingSomething NewFar Away Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.” NeedsGivingWritingHas BeensSeemsReadingFunInformationObviousReadiness Author:Vivian Gornick
“I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.” ThinkingFunDifferencesDecisionCreativeDecidedGestures Author:Andrea Zittel
“I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.” WritingDesireFunTalentIndustryNotionPerseveranceApplicationIrrelevant Author:Gordon Lish
“Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.” WholeFun Author:Charlie Daniels
“Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.” PeopleWantHardFactsScienceFunKnowledgeKnowingAnalyzing Author:Jesse L. Greenstein
“Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.” WayNeedsDoeGovernmentOrderDifficultOpinionCompositionDifficult Things Author:Nick Clegg
“The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.” ScienceFunTheoryExperimentsChemist Author:Justus von Liebig