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I had more positive views. Which made me feel that although I hadn't been taught to assimilate, a person perhaps assimilated without knowing it. I was doing it now. You did it alone, and not with other or for them. And assimilating possibly wasn't so hard and risky and didn't need to be permanent. This state of mind conferred another freedom on me and was like starting life over, or as I've already said, becoming someone else -- but someone who was not stalled but moving, which was the nature... Richard Ford
Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending. Samuel Butler
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks, For he knows..."
Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks, For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks! Kurt Vonnegut
Jodi Picoult quote: "What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how..."
What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. Jodi Picoult
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "With how many things are we on the brink of being acquainted,..."
With how many things are we on the brink of being acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention...How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely? Paul Valery
Mitch Albom quote: "He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so..."
He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born. Mitch Albom
Haruki Murakami quote: "I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your..."
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. Haruki Murakami
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another. Isabel Allende
There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works. Tom Robbins
To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the... Alain de Botton
Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be bought lies in its tangibility, in how it will reward the touch, the hand, of the owner. John Berger
No posterity, you will never know how much it has cost us to preserve your freedom. My hope is that you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I have took half the pains to preserve it? - John Adams John Adams
But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what was it heading towards? And how long would each of us mean something to the others? Michael Ondaatje
It was as if she saw him in a whole new way, as if he had magically been transformed into a new person. Perhaps what she could really see, or wanted so very much to see, was how much he cared for her. Not that he wanted something from her, but that he wanted to see to it that she was happy, that she was taken care of, that that was what he truly wanted. And in that instant, it made her love him. Pamela Anderson

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