QUOTES LXXVI

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There's no heavier burden than great potential.
Linus in Charles Schulz's "Peanuts"

This piece of music is itself a good reason for the whole universe to exist. It makes you feel privileged and grateful to be alive.
Paetur Baerentsen
Comment on YouTube on the slow movement of Vivaldi's Lute Concerto in D

His thoughts were slow,
His words were few, and never formed to glisten;
But he was a joy to all his friends -
You should have heard him listen.
Author Unknown

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes