#stones

The desire to know the future gnaws at our bones. That is where it started, and might have ended, years ago. I had cast the stones, seeing their faces flicker and fall: Death, Love, Murder, Treachery, Hope. We are a treacherous people - half of our stones show betrayal and violence and death from those close, death from those far away. It is not so with other peoples. I have seen other sets that show only natural disasters: death from sickness, from age, the pain of a broken heart, loss in childbirth. And those stones are more than half full with pleasure and joy and plain, solid warnings like "You reap what you sow" and "Victory is not the same as satisfaction." Of course, we live in a land taken by force, by battle and murder and invasion. It is not so surprising that our stones reflect our history. ↗

— Pamela Freeman

#fortune-telling #murder #runestones #age

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #i am #man #more #much

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#end #every #faces #friend #grows

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#civilized #civilized society #cornerstones #exist #good

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. ↗

— Paracelsus

#eyes #herbs #only #perceive #remedy

Without stones there is no arch. ↗

— Marco Polo

#stones #without

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush. ↗

— Keith Richards

#rush #still #stones #ultimate

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. ↗