Precious Sayings
Here are some words of people I do not know, but I find comfort in.
· This moment will just be another story someday." ~Stephen Chbosky
· “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” ~Margaret Atwood
· "Every day you're not dead in the ground, when you wake up in the morning, you're gonna have to make some decisions. Got to ask yourself this question: "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" ~Constantine Jefferson, The Help
· "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." ~Galileo Galilei
· "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes." ~Lord Byron
· "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." ~Peter Ustinov
· "Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things." ~Catherine of Aragon
· "Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say goodbye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again." ~Elizabeth Bowen
· "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me, and I may be forced to love you." ~William Arthur Ward
· "See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek." ~Shakespeare
· "I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all." ~Abraham Lincoln
· "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more." ~John Burroughs
· "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
· "Always remember that others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." ~Richard Nixon
· "The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space." ~Marilyn Monroe
· "Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
· "The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable." ~Kurt Vonnegut
· "She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important-you know." ~Marilyn Monroe
· “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." ~Hermann Hesse
· “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon