Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.
The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.
She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time. ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time.
...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
When everything in your life is silent, enjoy the quietness of your mind. This is the place of peace, a sacred place, and a time for reflection, a time to be guided on the path of your journey…
Falling in love is easy. Fools fall in love all the time. Staying in love is the test of time and the gift you give to one another daily….
We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.
The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?
When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.
A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited o...
But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
There's always tomorrow." I followed him. "Tomorrow's not going to change anything." "We'll see." "There's nothing to see. You're wasting your time." "When it concerns you, it's never a waste of my time," he replied.
she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel alone.
the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
Since the day I was born, I’ve spent my time being a human being, and I regard this as a good decision. But not a great one.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one o...
There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.
