Monday quotes, again

1. Although we know the end of the maze holds death...I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being - one of many ways - and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. --Daniel Keyes, in Flowers for Algernon.

2. Music has the poiwer to abolish everything in the outside world except its souns, which go straight to the heart. --Gaston Leoureux

3. Hearts are not had as gifts, but hearts are earned. --W. B. Yeats

4. For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or tree times removed, when we know least about it. --R.W. Emerson

5. Never find fault with the absent. --Alexander Pope

Five more quotes

1. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. --Alfred Adler
2. The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the posessor, if he know not discreetly how to use it. --Michel de Montigne
3. What lies before and what lies behind you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. -- R.W. Emerson
4. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world "This was a man." - Hamlet
5. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? --Willa Cather

Five more quotes

The next five. These are slightly more embarrassing - I can only remember that this is what struck me before I turned 20.

Love is like a big ball of mustard - you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. --Molly Jorgensen
Molly is now Molly Oliver and has been married for over ten years. She's still my best source of comforting aphorisms.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amen to that. I think manners are the rules by which we make others feel at ease, which makes me suspect that most people have more than a smidge of social anxiety.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. --Seneca the Younger
Seneca served as the tutor and then main advisor to the emperor Nero. He helped Nero kill the Dowager Emperess Agrippina, his mother, and in the midst of acting as Nero's consiglieri, Seneca wrote tragic, grisly plays and high-minded philosophy. He died when he disagreed with Nero one too many times and Nero ordered him to commit suicide. I think Seneca knew what he was talking about here.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. --Winston Churchill
Very comforting to a geeky girl - finally an arena I felt comfortable competing in.
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You can always tell a real friend: when you have made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel that you've done a permanent job. --Lawrence J. Peter.
Aw, I love that one. And here I need to reference Molly again.