Jer > Jer's Quotes

“Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)”
― Michelangelo

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”
― Michelangelo

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti, Selected Poems and Letters

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”
― Sophia Bush

“Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it- who you choose to be”
― Soothsayer from Kung Fu Panda 2

“Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Good morning," said the little prince.

Good morning," said the merchant.

This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink.

Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.

Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."
And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"

Anything you like..."

As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince