Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.
We go back to the Dark Ages! The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would just take a few thousand big shells and gas bombs to wipe out all the eager young men, and all t...
It's the darkness of life. The light is here one day and gone the next. Only the fortunate get to take the light for granted. Only the sun is here today and tomorrow. Life and everything else is peris...
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.
Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who wouldalways get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.
In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot on...
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-be...
Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
My classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of...