A Fine Selection of Daily Quotes

"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last."

"Events are only inevitable after they happen."

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

"Power is safest in a poets hands. Thus for the artist God will pose."

"Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

"Let the waters settle and you will see the stars and moon mirrored in your being."

"We are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've no idea."

"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove."

"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold: surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world."

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."

"Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead."

"I took my pill at eleven. An hour and a half later, I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers-a full-blown Belie of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-colored carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste. At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively dissonance of its colors. But that was no longer the point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation- the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe."

"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

"Beware of the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever."

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

"A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans..."

"It is a lie -- any talk of God that does not comfort you."

"God made the integers; all else is the work of man."