dios es amor

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard



You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu



To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler



Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. ~Dan Quayle



There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. ~Andrew Carnegie



And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. ~Author Unknown



I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. ~Lord Byron



Opposites are cures for opposites. ~Hippocrates



There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887



Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. ~Richard Powers



We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. ~Art Buchwald



The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. ~Moliere



I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison



Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths. ~Author Unknown



If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky



What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~Alan Paton



Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger



In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. ~Booker T. Washington