” in my experience , tears have never been useful , neither relieving pain nor offering comfort once shed ” when breath becomes air, one of my life time favorite book ( true story)!!
This may take a while 🙂 : “A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it’s standing it’s doing its job.” ― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.” ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don’t have to kill your feelings. It’s enough to kill hatred within yourself.” ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Blood of the Elves
“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.” The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
What fools these mortals be. Midsummer’s Night Dream, Shakespeare.
To finish first, first you must finish. – The art of racing in the rain. By Garth Stein
That book got me out of a bout of Reader’s Block a couple of years ago! 🙂
Same with me. It changed my life and how I see the world. It also reconnected me with one of my best friend
Personal is not the same thing as important—Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
“Sometimes the scariest monsters aren’t the ones lying under our beds, but the people who promise us the world.” – The End Diary by R.A. Desilets
Today the yacht exploded-The Island by Richard Laymon. That has to be a great opening line. It hooks you.
” in my experience , tears have never been useful , neither relieving pain nor offering comfort once shed ” when breath becomes air, one of my life time favorite book ( true story)!!
This may take a while 🙂 :
“A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it’s standing it’s doing its job.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don’t have to kill your feelings. It’s enough to kill hatred within yourself.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Blood of the Elves
Be still and know that I am God.
My favorite quote from from the Bible, Psalm 46:10
square white porcelain sinks, their surfaces crisscrossed by a spider’s web of fissures – how does anyone even think of that kind of comparison?
“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”. ~ Butterfly Garden
So not only was I self-sufficient, I came to have a pretty low opinion of most people’s intelligence ~ Butterfly Garden