nothing

Nothing comes from ourselves but that which we draw put of the obscurity within us and which is known to others... An hour is a vase filled with perfumes, with sounds, with moments, with changing moods and climates.

The Past Recaptured, Marcel Proust

hold on to it

Because it is a terrible thing if you don't hold on to that which seems true to you today-- to that which will seem true to you tomorrow, even if it is the opposite of that which seemed true to you yesterday.

Henry IV, Luigi Prandello

we

But we all of us cling tight to our conceptions of ourselves, just as he who is growing old dyes his hair.

Henry IV, Luigi Pirandello

right you are if you think you are

Yes, and for myself I am nobody--no-- I am for myself whoever you choose to have me... In our lives, as you see, there is something which must remain concealed, otherwise the remedy which our love for each other has found cannot avail.

Right You Are if You Think Your Are, Luigi Pirandello

humanity

'Humanity? Humanity? That's humanity for you! There! You still recognize it?'

Our Lord Of The Ship, Luigi Pirandello

Andre Gide

'The moment! Canst thou understand the power of its now? For every moment of our life is by its essence irreplaceable: therefore learn betimes to give it heed'

'Nathanael, throw away my book. Do not think that your truth can be found by someone else-- Throw away my book: say to yourself that this is only one of the thousand possible attitudes toward life. Search out your own.'

Les Nourritures Terrestres

'He who loves his life... shall lose it: nut he who shall lose it  shall find it full of life-- to him shall be assured the life eternal in the future-- but he shall find eternity now in the present.'

'What peace! Here truly time is no more. Here breathes eternity. We enter into the kingdom of god.'

Numquid Et Tu...?

the world

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded for ever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light among the thorns.

George Santayana

At a distance the world looks pretty enough. From near it's brainless, banal, and indecent beyond words.

Gerhart Hauptmann

Time

Time is the raw material from which all things are made.

500 Days of Summer

the difference

What's the difference between complete and finished?
If you find a good wife you are complete otherwise you are finished.

which is it

Wife: you are going to be sorry, I am going to leave you.
Husband: make up your mind, which one is it going to be?

don't kill'em

A banner in front of an It company:

Drive slowly, don't kill you employees
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Leave them to us

true relatives

True relatives always stand behind you during bad times. Check your marriage album, all your relatives were standing behind you!

the moment

However certain our expectation the moment foreseen may be, unexpected when it arrives. It comes when we are engrossed with matters of more urgency.

Archbishop Thomas Beckett, Murder in The Cathedral, T. S. Eliot

waiting

We wait , and the time is short but waiting is long.

Chorus, Murder in The Cathedral, T. S. Eliot