"Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it."

-- Lisa Kleypas

#People Quotes #Helping Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.”
“On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.”
“Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.”
“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”

Source : "Opportunity", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 570-72,
“Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”
“Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.”

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