I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. Simon Van Booy More Quotes by Simon Van Booy More Quotes From Simon Van Booy Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt. Simon Van Booy disappointment children people I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change. Simon Van Booy disappointment memories thinking For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls. Simon Van Booy wall life-is people Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate. Simon Van Booy different animal people You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. Simon Van Booy ache shock pain The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. Simon Van Booy significant silence conversation If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment. Simon Van Booy airports sight rain If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. Simon Van Booy trying sometimes enemy Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Simon Van Booy queens kings mean For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. Simon Van Booy lonely rain people Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life. Simon Van Booy lasts stranger love-is I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off. Simon Van Booy falling-in-love real thinking I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful. Simon Van Booy wonder too-late beautiful Hands have their own language. Simon Van Booy language hands Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us. Simon Van Booy happened understanding helping Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I make them happy, that means sacrifice. I think you have to be prepared to sacrifice, and a lot of people just aren't willing to. You have to give up a piece of yourself. By doing that, you get a greater sense of who you are. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more. Simon Van Booy sacrifice giving-up mean To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on. Simon Van Booy love-again happened needs I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched. Simon Van Booy rejection acceptance thinking Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel. Simon Van Booy eye greek character Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. Simon Van Booy finals adults children
