“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
"The Meeting in a Dream"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
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Jorge Luis Borges
(1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
No estoy seguro de que yo exista, en realidad. Soy todos los autores que he leído, toda la gente que he conocido, todas las mujeres que he amado. Todas las ciudades que he visitado, todos mis antepasados...
Source: El Pais, 1981 http://elpais.com/diario/1981/09/26/ultima/370303206_850215.html; translation: The Guardian, 2008 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/jorgeluisborges
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806–1861) English poet, author
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
Mickey Mantle
(1931–1995) Professional baseball player
Marianne Williamson
(1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.”
Myles Munroe
(1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: Waiting and Dating
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
Newt Gingrich
(1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)
Abraham Maslow
(1908–1970) American psychologist
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971).
1970s and later
“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”
John Keats
(1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
Helen Rowland
(1875–1950) American journalist
Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
Katharine Hepburn
(1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
Variant: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.”
Kinky Friedman
(1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
Kinky Friedman
(1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
