Quotes
Authors
Sun Bu'er
"A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers." --
Sun Bu'er
#Flower Quotes
#Autumn Quotes
#Winter Quotes
“Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.”
“People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.”
“I have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.”
“I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.”
“I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.”
“There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.”
“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.”
“People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.”