When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
We have [in Valerian] a bible that's 600 pages. There are five pages on each alien and where they come from. Even the address you can check on the map. On the star map. It's real numbers.
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.