amor mundi

I don't want you to think I lie awake at night counting - and recounting - sheep. ~Al Gore, speech, 2004 Democratic National Convention



Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693



The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake



I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey



Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. ~Bede Jarrett



My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine



The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906



If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ~Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle



A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honore de Balzac



I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ~Charles Baudelaire



Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown



Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~Jose Ortega y Gassett



If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston



You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard



When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. ~William James



Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman



Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Against abortion? Don't have one. ~Author Unknown



What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. ~Lewis Mumford, "Orientation to Life," The Conduct of Life, 1951