"Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces â€“ and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper â€“ love her, love her, love her!"

-- Charles Dickens

#Heart Quotes #Tears Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.”
“We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness sounds very reasonable, but it often conflicts with our gut reactions. Philosophers have spent the last century or so finding examples where our intuition runs counter to this idea and have taken these as signals that something is wrong with this philosophy. But when you look at the psychology behind those examples, they become less compelling. An alternative is that our gut reactions are not always reliable.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn Who hopes to wake the Future to arise In Phoenix -fashion, and to shine with rays To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”

Source : "Beauty in This Iron Age". Poem by Philip Jose Farmer, originally published in Orma McCormick and Nan Gerding "Starlanes: International Quarterly of Science Fiction Poetry", Issue 11 (Fall 1953); republished in Philip Jose Farmer "Pearls From Peoria" edited by Paul Spiteri, 2006.
“People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.”
“I personally like to do independent films.”
“Your home needs to be a place where your kids can failâ€”and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but donâ€™t try to undo their failures. Itâ€™s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.”

Source : Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.20, Baker Books
“Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.”
“An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.”

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