"Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain."

Wiesel, Elie | Writers and Writing | 1 bookmarks

"Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?"

Hitopadesa | Ancestry | 2 bookmarks

"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."

Hitopadesa | Greatness | 1 bookmarks

"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose | Absurdity | 6 bookmarks

"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane | Love | 10 bookmarks

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody | Love | 14 bookmarks

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De | Love | 24 bookmarks

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. | Love | 4 bookmarks

"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard | Love | 18 bookmarks

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. | Love | 13 bookmarks