Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
-Gautama Buddha
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescribable, indefinable.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
-Theodor W. Adorno