One day of rain far surpasses a whole year of drought.
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
Better ten times ill than one time dead.
One old friend is better than two new ones.
Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!
But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.
We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.
People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.
she drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper. Nobody sees the real me.
Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.
I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.
Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.
All longings the essence for real liberation only, Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy; - 43 -
When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
