"If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me."

-- Jean Rhys

#Goodbye Quotes #Song Quotes #Fate Quotes

“God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62
“Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.”
“He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.”
“Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!”
“You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.”
“I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but Iâ€™m having this one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Mar 14, 2014
“In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.”
“I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.”

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