Trinkets – Quotes

I’m rarely invited to

I’m rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway? Evgeny Morozov

Put money in it’s place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can’t buy you peace, love, or happiness. Ernie J Zelinski

The morns are meeker

The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry’s cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I’ll put a trinket on. Emily Dickinson

Lest I should be

Lest I should be old-fashioned, I’ll put a trinket on. Emily Dickinson

Fashion is born by

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. Elsa Schiaparelli

If your nature is

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there’s a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you’ll never be happy, because these are all trinkets. Frederick Lenz

And there is something

And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious … Read more

How men hate waiting

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory. Bill Vaughan

Elton John’s home is

Elton John’s home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft. Bernie Taupin

If you are not

If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade … Read more