Quotes 81 till 100 of 103.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
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Virginia? he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.
A Walk in the Woods -
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
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What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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