"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
Unknown
"Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment."
Unknown
"I have always believed that women hold this world together with theirlove, passion, inspiration, hard work, vision and willingness to helpothers. Yet, increased responsibility in both our personal and professionallives – to become “superwomen” – is taking a devastating toll onour health and happiness."
Simin Hashemizadeh
Inspiration
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
"Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older."
Audrey Niffenegger
Inspiration
But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... Infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone?
Author
"Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'.'To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English,' Peter said. 'It's taken me most of today to get through a page."
Justin Cronin
"The game isn't over until it's over."
Unknown
"Rocked in the cradle of the deep I lay me down in peace to sleep."
Emma Willard
"I don't subscribe to any religion so it didn't matter to me if I prayed in a shrine, temple, or church. Butbe cause I was asking for so much I assumed Buddha and the Christian God wouldn't even listen."
Anonymous
"I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous at the moment. I felt like a small mouse in the mouth of a lion."
Anna M. Aquino
"What will you do now with the gift of your left life?"
Unknown