Quotes of the day, May 17

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Reward
• Deserves
• True Love

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

Arthur Schopenhauer

• True
• Exist
• Astonishment

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

Eugene Levy

• Joke
• Stand-up comedian

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

Sarah Dessen

• Feel
• Thought
• Behind

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances.

Gautama Buddha

• Existence
• Emotions
• Destroy

Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

Virginia Madsen

• Different
• Together
• Woman