She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone. Guy de Maupassant
Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. Daphne Rose Kingma
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on. Annie Proulx
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.And if they don't, they never were. Kahlil Gibran
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. Will Self
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. Yasunari Kawabata
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek proverb
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau
Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? Natalie Angier
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. Nicholson Baker
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change. Marshall McLuhan
