"To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life."

-- Jose Maria Peman

#Heart Quotes #Wine Quotes #Giving Quotes

“But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.”
“You have to be more disciplined every day to get better and learn the game.”
“We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals”
“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company
“Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?”
“What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.”
“Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.”
“If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West”

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