The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
—Pierre Bonnard
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
—H. L. Mencken
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
—Fannie Hurst
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
—Raoul Dufy
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
—Winston Churchill
When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.
—Jess Rothenberg in The Catastrophic History of You and Me
The days are long, but the years are short.
—Gretchen Rubin
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
—Werner Heisenberg
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
—Halifax
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
—Mark Twain
Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery.
—Laurens Van der Post
The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
—Dan Millman
Lines were blurring, and I couldn't tell where along the way I stopped caring.
—R.J. Lewis in Loving Lawson