"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."

-- W. H. Auden

#Rain Quotes #Cake Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.”
“Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.”
“I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.”
“Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.”
“It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.”
“If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it”

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