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“Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.”
Source : "Biology of love". 1996.
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“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”
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“Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time ...”
Source : Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”
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“God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.”
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“No one ever gets to see what could’ve been.”
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“There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.”
Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.110, Macmillan
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“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
Source : Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
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“Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.”