Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger; stronger to a negative point of view. But our venge was, I mean if you listen to Irish language, it's very complicated but it's very poetic.
On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting this way and that and then something would set him off, Zero Mostel, say, in the movie that made Wilder a star, "The Producers. "
It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.
I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.