"Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Beauty Quotes #Dream Quotes #Children Quotes

“I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with”
“Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1994). “Guests”
“The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.”
“Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.”
“The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.”
“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.”
“It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.”

Source : Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.123, Simon and Schuster
“And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.”

Source : Song: Bridges and Balloons, Album: The Milk-Eyed Mender, 2004

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