Wild women don't get the blues.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat. , Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima. ]
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It. , Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina. ]
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.
To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning.
Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise.