"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"

-- Virginia Woolf

#Eye Quotes #Mind Quotes #Vain Quotes

“But you canâ€™t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We donâ€™t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in â€“ then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.”
“What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.”
“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.”
“The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.”
“Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing itâ€”love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumnâ€™s leaves and catches them by surprise.”
“Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.”
“I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.”

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