106 Quotes by Storm Jameson

Language is memory and metaphor.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.