love and friends quotes

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ~Samuel Butler



Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett



A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown



The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate



It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness, - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903



Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson



When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown



The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anais Nin



It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 21



Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered



No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. ~Frederica Mathewes-Green



Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ~H.L. Mencken



The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets



Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda



We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~Author Unknown



Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine



An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. ~Andy Warhol



Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss



Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. ~Benjamin Franklin



So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ~Gaston Bachelard