love and life quotes and sayings

   

   

I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived. ~Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ~H.G. Wells

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~Albert Camus

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke

If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem. ~Author Unknown

Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini

Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.... ~Thomas De Quincey

It is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. We like: naked women, stockings, lesbians, and Sean Connery best as James Bond, because that is what being a boy is. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~Carl T. Rowan

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588

Macho doesn't prove mucho. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. ~Author Unknown

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963