"If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?"

-- Mike Gayle

#Life And Death Quotes #Snow Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.”
“I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.”
“I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.”
“Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.45, Northwestern University Press
“On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.”
“If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.337, Open Road Media
“Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.”
“But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.”

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