I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.
In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?
The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.
The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.
In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.