The Mundane Artist

 

"There is one benefit, though, that outshines all others. It's 'bonding', a transcendent emotional experience that is uniquely a woman's. When an infant suckles, when it feels the nourishment—life, itself—flowing from you, and associates it with your closeness, your warmth, the perfume of your body, your touch, the light in your eyes, the embracing and the cuddling, a bond is forged that can enrich your life, and the life of your child, all your lives. It's the bond of love." -Feed Your Kids Bright by Francine Prince and Harold Prince, PhD. 

"...and while there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story." - Jeffrey Archer, And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer. 

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." - The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

"Where the love laws lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much."   - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy    

WGrayson7: well, i agree that "trial and error" is a pretty pessimistic name for it. and maybe that's what it is most of the time.    WGrayson7: but i think the point is that it's not just try-error.    WGrayson7: most of the time it's try-error-try.   WGrayson7: try-error-try   WGrayson7: try-error-try   WGrayson7: and that's how you find it.   willupleasebequiet: it?    WGrayson7: you know. it .   willupleasebequiet: yeah, it .   willupleasebequiet: try-error-try-it   WGrayson7: well...i haven't become that optimistic .   Wgrayson7: it's more like try-error-try-error-try-error-try-error-try-error-try...at least fifteen more rounds...then try-error-try- it . -Will Grayson and Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. 

"The Love of Two Stars Two stars fell in love. Between them came sky And ten moons and two suns riding high,   Before them the nebulous star-crusted Way,  The silence of Night, the silver of Day.    A million years passed, the lovers still glowed   With the brilliance and fire and passion of old,   But one star grew restless and set off at night    With a wonderful shower of hot white light.    He sped to his love, with his hopes and his fears,   But missed her, alas, by a thousand light-years. " -Ruskin   Bond's Book of Verse .      

"It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn't know you, who tells you it's OK, whatever you did, whatever you've done; you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness." -Rachel, The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins. 

"The evil you do remains with you, the good you do comes back to you." - Old Hunchback, Of Good And Evil by Samir D'Silva.

"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated."   -Eliza Doolittle, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. 

"Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't ."   -Guardian Dimitri Belikov, Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead.

"Whoever the homeland may belong to, it is not merely a piece of geography. It is also not just history. Nor is it the rivers of the region, or the mountains. It is all those things that keep getting absorbed in your very being whether you want it or not. It constantly nurtures your mind, heart and soul. Keeps it alive ... It is our land that gives us a vision. Gives us strength to see our country and see beyond it. To connect with our place and times." - Krishna Sobti, Author of Daar Se Bichudi (English translation: Memory's Daughter) 

"Familial bonds are not created through the transfer of information. They are forged through experience over time. They are the sum of Potty Training times Sick Days, of Nights Spent Sleeping in the Same Bed times Knee Scrapes Kissed in Playgrounds. The intimacy of parenting and children is not based on data as much as it is on proximity." - Paul Allen, The Good Father .  

"If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all . . . why then perhaps we must stand fast a little - even at the risk of being heroes." - Sir Thomas More, Act 2, A Man For All Seasons.