amor y desamor

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." ~Ellen DeGeneres



History is a novel for which the people is the author. ~Alfred de Vigny, Reflexions sur la Verite dans l'Art



The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events. ~Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture



The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891 Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any other agency in the world. ~Richard Le Gallienne



Accidents hurt - safety doesn't. ~Author Unknown



On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. ~Curtis McDougall



The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ~Author Unknown



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Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696



The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim



Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses



To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ~W.E.B. DuBois



Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~Evelyn Waugh



Homecoming means more than winning a competition or a sporting event. It provides an opportunity for every component of the university to come together to celebrate as a whole. ~Author Unknown



No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ~Thomas Robert Dewar



I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison



It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. ~Charles Osgood



The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald