I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
– Horace Walpole
Feb 162014
Feb 152014
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Feb 142014
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
– Katharine Hepburn
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21624-sometimes-i-wonder-if-men-and-women-really-suit-each
Feb 132014
Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the toes) ,
it will wrap you up like a mummy,
and your scream won’t be heard
and none of your running will end.
Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
your tears to the land. To love another is something
like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
– Anne Sexton
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/admonitions-to-a-special-person/
Feb 122014
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
– Dr. Benjamin Spock, regarding mothers caring for their children
Feb 112014
Leap, and the net will appear.
Love is there, behind our fear.
Although “Leap and the net will appear” is sometimes attributed to an unknown Zen source, it is, in fact, a quote by American naturalist John Burroughs.
http://www.blog.zenleadership.net/2009/05/leap-and-net-will-appear.html
Feb 102014
When someone else’s happiness is your happiness that is love. – Lana Del Rey