“Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.” MenCitiesCenturyWindowWingsWarmScreensDawnPresidentialGreat MenAutumnWeekendMondayBreezePalacesGrandeurStagnantRottingVultureBalconiesLethargyFlapping Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.” MenFirstsStillsHandsNightHouseDarknessWindowPressesGhostSarcasticHalloweenChamberWhisperingSpookyHappy HalloweenFunny HalloweenLatchesInspirational HalloweenHaunted HousesChristian HalloweenHalloween And FriendsCute HalloweenSpooky HalloweenHalloween Night Book:The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition) Source: The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)
“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.” MenNeedsMomentsGoalStepsSupportAwarenessInspirational LifeHabitWindowStructureNew Habits Author:Mark Twain
“If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.” IfsMenFactsWindowCornersKicksChimneys Book:Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms Source: Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms
“The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.” MenWorldHumansWellsLittlesSoulBodyDiesSoundSecretStrangeReturnAll ThingsWindowSightEndureImmortalTemporaryFuneralRetiringDisguiseReincarnationHuman BodyIncarnationMockDead ManAbode Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson