Likely Quotes (page 370)

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• love
• men
• earth

The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not likethe azure ether beyond. Henry David Thoreau

• mindfulness
• personal
• blue

Naturally, if one's days were passed in this seeing of angular essences, this reducing of lovely evenings, with all their flamingo clouds and blue and silver to a white deal four-legged table (and it was a mark of the finest minds to do so), naturally one could not be judged like an ordinary person. Virginia Woolf

• love
• evening
• hot

Yelena. What a lovely day!... Not to hot either. Voynitski. It would even be pleasant to hang oneself on a day like this. Anton Chekhov

• end
• decision making
• thinking

John: 'Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it. John Lennon

• knowledge
• universe
• lifetime

He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair. Arthur C. Clarke

• book
• talks
• talked

You talk like a book. Vladimir Nabokov

• you me
• saying
• sad

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to youto make you hear as I want you to hear me. Pablo Neruda

• love
• him
• parts

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like. Jodi Picoult

• night
• her eyes
• walking

Before I go, I'd like to tell you something." Her voice was cool over flowing vowels. "It isn't often one finds one's first impression was so killingly accurate. The first night I met you, I thought you were a rude, arrogant man with no redeeming qualities." The wind blew her hair across her eyes and with a toss of her head she sent it flying back so that she could keep her icy gaze on his. "It's very gratifying to learn just how right I was... and to be able to dislike you so intensely."... Nora Roberts

• hair
• parting
• ties

It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left? a detail, but not a telling one. David Sedaris

• good
• look
• bad

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is suppose to look like Jodi Picoult

• father
• responsibility
• him

And my father?"Brian's grin flashed. "I like thinking that's where I got the fifty. I told him he's better off sticking with the horses."Keeley's brow rose. "And his response to that?"Isn't something I can repeat in polite company. Nora Roberts

• growing up
• hard
• precocious

Both were rather precocious, and like many precocious young people they found it hard to grow up. Haruki Murakami

• soul
• gold
• souls

And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up? Friedrich Nietzsche

• brain
• past
• life

An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave. Barbara Kingsolver