Cans Quotes (page 450)

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• broken
• dark
• joy

April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts. Barbara Kingsolver

• nature
• black
• coming

No very black melencholy can come to he who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still..... Henry David Thoreau

• men
• consider
• physics

Volumes can be and have been written aboutthe issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animalsand to rule them by physical force? Ayn Rand

• moving
• feeling
• nature

That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges. It doesn’t strike us and never can strike us because it is the way we perceive. We never give it a thought and it’s impossible we should, since there is nothing that contrasts with the form of our world. What I wanted to say... Ludwig Wittgenstein

• compassion
• childhood
• dead

Whatever became of the momentwhen one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling... with the knowledge that for all the points of the... Tom Stoppard

• horse
• happy
• dark

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness. Henry James

• study
• reading
• learning

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. Richard Bach

• drinking
• alcohol
• excuses

Writers block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. Steve Martin

• thoughts
• bear
• contentment

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. Heraclitus

• challenge
• world
• thinking

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs] Alexander Dumas

• emotional
• faith
• value

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths. Terry Goodkind

• dating
• old
• keeps

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. George Bernard Shaw

• ignorance
• first love
• magic

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. Benjamin Disraeli

• leads
• behind
• lead

You can't lead from behind James Longstreet

• happy
• god
• peace

God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. C. S. Lewis