what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
The success gate is far at the end of the long failure corridor. Keep moving no matter how many potholes you step into. You will get there with time!
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me. If I hadn’t known better, I’d have thought it was hope.
I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom—
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
All longings the essence for real liberation only, Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy; - 43 -
He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.
He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.
I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries; file them for future reference.
That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.
But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.
