Thanks Wallflower. I loved the idea of an artist figuratively surrendering and being in awe before the works of the greatest artist ever !
"Yes, it must occur just as when someone hungry dreams and here he is eating, and he actually awakes and his soul is empty; and just as when someone thirsty dreams and here he is drinking, and he actually awakes and here he is tired and his soul is dried out;" - Is. 29:8
"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world." - Tony Benn, English Politician. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn
That one is simple in itself but it moved me : The tree 1) When it's grown up, you will learn to value life. 2) Thanks Dad !
"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway." "At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand
"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson And, Utuna has wit in spades. Utuna, knowing you are French and possibly lacking knowledge of English euphemisms, here's an explanation of "in spades". I also say "possibly" because you have a better grasp and understanding of English than the majority of native born speakers of the language. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-spades.html
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune." Plato
A man is never bigger than when he bends to help a child" Merci pour le compliment. Venant de toi, Ça me touche tout particulièrement. La reconnaissance de mes pairs m'importe. As for the explanation of the expression "in spades", thanks indeed ! I looked it up and realized that there is a similar expression in French : "A la pelle".
I like the irony. lol Such a statement from an author who spent her life writing dozens of novels featuring murdered people is quite ironic !
I don't necessarily view these two well known individuals in high esteem, because most of their thinking goes against the teachings in the bible. Here are quotes that have truth in them. "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." - Carl Sagan
"Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known." - Michel de Montaigne A key chemical ingredient for life may have been more abundant on early Mars than on early Earth, researchers say. The nutrient in question, phosphate, serves as the backbone of DNA and is also an essential part of the molecules cells use for energy and membranes. Scientists think it was also critical to reactions that led to the origin of life on Earth. ". . . scientists think life must have begun much earlier, perhaps as early as 3.8 billion years ago. But despite knowing approximately when life first appeared on Earth, scientists are still far from answering how it appeared."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou