"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life."

-- Annie Dillard

#Sweet Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.”
“To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.”
“Whatever it takes to get everybody loose, I'm going to do it!”
“I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.”
“Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.”
“I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now, you could say he was all right, because he was able to jump. But you could also say he was not all right, because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Irving Finegarten". "S.O.B.", www.imdb.com. 1981.
“Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.”
“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.”

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