
“Love people, not things; use things, not people. “
— Spencer W. Kimball
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
-Patanjali
Beautiful, people had called her from the moment she could understand they were speaking of her. They had murmured it to their friends or to her parents and often, as she grew older, they would say it to her face, never feeling they were rude, never seeing that such personal evaluations were intrusive and unwanted. They felt themselves to be applauding her, praising her for her cleverness. But she had accomplished nothing in being beautiful so why should she be awarded honour for it? If an award must be given for an innate quality, then why not an award for good health?
Ember thought of her beauty as a tawdry consolation prize given to one who missed out on the real prize. Sorry, we can’t give you health, but we do have this beauty you can have instead. The only catch is that it won’t last long, but then again, neither will you.
”wise words from staybeautifullythin ((:
One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are – your life, and nothing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
Sidney Sheldon
Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable in itself – we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different.
Elizabeth Kostova
Do you know, what it’s like to love someone so much, that you can’t see yourself without picturing her? Or what it’s like to touch someone, and feel like you’ve come home? What we had wasn’t about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you’ve got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person…I was lucky enough to have her all along.
Jodi Picoult
Making love to a nursemaid behind a tree, that soldier is more admirable than all the stars. Yet sometimes one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lust.
Virginia Woolf
A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honour or abuse.
Buddha
I have had all the literature I can stand & I am fed up with art.
Whenever I have a problem I just sing, and then I realize my voice is worse than my problem.
It struck me that perhaps a lot of people you see walking about are dead.
Distance doesn’t ruin people’s relationships. You don’t have to see someone every day to be in love.
Everything in life doesn’t have to be done the hard way.
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
Marvelous are the innocent.
‘Yes, that seems to be my problem today. Not answering stupid questions.’
Vikram Seth
‘They tell us that two & two make four as though it had never occurred to us, & they’re disappointed if we can’t share their surprise when they just discovered that hen lays an egg.’
Somerset
‘You could share DNA with someone & still have nothing in common with them.’
Jodi Picoult
‘Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning & finding a piece of yourself you didn’t even know existed.’
Jodi Picoult
‘That’s how I should like to die: go to sleep at night, & not wake up in the morning.’
Jean-Paul Sartre