"When the balance is restored, people get hurt."

-- Janet Morris

#Hurt Quotes #Commitment Quotes #People Quotes

“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”

Source : "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.
“Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”
“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
“My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.”

Source : Jules Massenet (1971). “My Recollections (1848-1912).”

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