quimica do amor

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ~Andre Gide, Nourritures Terrestres



It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. ~Sutton Elbert Griggs



After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. ~Helen Rowland



Remember the story you told me about the father bull talking to the son? They're up on this hill and looking down on a bunch of cows. And the son goes to the father, "Dad, why don't we run down there and fuck one of these cows?" Now, do you remember what the father said? Father says, "Son, why don't we walk down there and fuck them all?" ~Frank Renzulli, The Sopranos, "Pax Soprana," original airdate 14 February 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~John Keats



We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame. ~James Edward Austen-Leigh, about Jane Austen



Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. ~Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.



Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. ~Frederick W. Robertson Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~Author Unknown



Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver



Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ~Jules de Gaultier



People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig



In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. ~Richard Wilkinson



Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ~Peter Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions, 1900



God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas Huxley



I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. ~Danny McGoorty



No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ~Alexander Chase, "Perspectives," 1966



If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton