quotes on waiting for love

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy



It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. ~Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989



When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton



Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ~George Bernard Shaw



He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ~Charles Wagner



The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy



A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson



Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown



Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach



Laughorisms: humorous aphorisms, a term coined by Ambrose Bierce.



Flirtation: attention without intention. ~Max O'Rell, John Bull and His Island



The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977



He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. ~John George Jones



We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914



The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle



Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau