...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.
I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. (h.5)
Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.
I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you.
And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.
Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.
They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is
I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm to remind them that light begins and ends with all colors.
Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.
My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I'd pay for all the powers I'd used, but the portal most of all. Good girls weren't supposed to open hell dimensions.
From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
