Collection of beautiful words

• Grapes unripe, ripened, raisined, all change, not into non-existence, but into not-yet existence. - Marcus Aurelius

• In the midst of winter, there lies within me, an invincible summer. -Albert Camus

• Even the very wise do not see all ends. - J.R.R. Tolkien

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! -Anatole France

• Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. -Victor Hugo

• Worry often gives small thing a big shadow

• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Louis L'Amour

• And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck (Favourite)

• If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley

• Religion, a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable.

• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb

• Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. -Voltaire

• People focus on role models; it's more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up. -N Taleb

• We shall not cease from exploring and at the end of our exploration we will return to where we started and know the place for the first time. Now that's in a sense where I'm beginning to be. -T S Eliot

• A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it. -Albert Camus

• The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli

• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. -Mary Wollstonecraft

• It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti