QUOTES and sayings that Mark likes, he wrote, or just struck him as funny or something to meditate on.
ON LIFE AND THE COMMON MAN
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." ~ Helen Keller
"It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live." ~ Ethel Percy Andrus
"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom." ~ Mark Twain
"While it is so that wars are rumoured throughout the world, still peace and blessed tranquility are here within these walls and in our hearts." ~ Anonymous
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
"The line between genius and insanity borders only on success." ~ from 'Tomorrow Never Dies'
ON LIFE AND LOVE
"It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found." ~ from 'A Beautiful Mind'
"If eyes are the corridor to the soul, then lips are the corridor to the mind." ~ unknown
"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be an eternity, and an eternity can be the tick of a clock." ~ Mary Parrish
"For love, a kiss is the beginning of eternity. For betrayal, a kiss is the beginning of the end. For love, a kiss stops time. For betrayal, a kiss ends life." ~ Mark Hatting
"It is through careful observance of life and love that I have formulated a theory which cannot be disproved: Love will always give life and it will always take it away. Do not arouse love until it needs to be. When it is awakened, your life will change dramatically." ~ Mark Hatting
ON LIFE AND PARADOXES
"Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics." ~ Edward Kasner
"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation." ~ Bertrand Russell
"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ~ Herbert Hoover
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