Danielle

“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
― Aphra Behn, The Younger Brother; Or, the Amorous Jilt

“A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Some fifty years ago a UCLA professor told me the same thing about applied mathematics. We like to hide from the truth behind foreign-sounding words or mathematical lingo. There’s a saying: The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived. If we don’t perceive it, we can’t help ourselves and we can’t much help anyone else.”
― Jeff Bridges, The Dude and the Zen Master

“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lover's Watch

“Possessed with a thousand thoughts of past joys”
― Aphra Behn, Oroonoko