By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. —Ralph W. Sockman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. —Johann Georg von Zimmermann More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should count each day a separate life. —Seneca More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. —Cory Doctorow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there? —Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. —John Green More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. —Norman Mailer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. —Rene Descartes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded. —Stephanie Barron More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? —Lucy Maud Montgomery More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email