Today Quotes
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I have not slept one wink.William Shakespeare, "Cymbeline", Act 3 scene 4
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Cursed be he that moves my bones.William Shakespeare, Epitaph on his gravestone
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.Pierre Gallois
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.Henry David Thoreau
He drew a circle that shut me out --
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.Edwin Markham
Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.George Moore
After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56