It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And what is the end of the whole matter? As if honey could taste itself and all its drops together and all its drops could taste each other and each the whole honeycomb as itself, so should the end be with God and the soul of man and the universe. —Sri Aurobindo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing power of spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I intend to live forever. So far, so good. —Steven Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wouldn't mind being dead — it would be something new. —Estelle Winwood, at age one hundred More about this quote Tags: change death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe, and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although failing fast, [former U.S. president] John Adams was determined to survive until the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — July 4, 1826. At dawn on that day he was awakened by his servant, who asked if he knew what day it was. He replied, "Oh, yes, it is the glorious Fourth of July. God bless it. God bless you all." He then slipped into a coma. In the afternoon he recovered consciousness briefly to murmur, "Thomas Jefferson lives." These were his last words. Unknown to him, Thomas Jefferson had died that same day. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. —Viktor Frankl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. —Paul Bowles More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every arrival foretells a leave-taking, every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have delighted us long enough. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email