It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —Agnes Repplier More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. —Clark Gable More about this quote Tags: love fondness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. —Granville Hicks More about this quote Tags: power knowledge censorship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love memory need confusion wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: freedom style failure grace triumph defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: attention understanding patience weirdness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: dragons heroes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love time change work magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics love rules help honor security free Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love uniqueness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Both speech and silence transgress. —Zen saying More about this quote Tags: silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world. —Robert Pirsig More about this quote Tags: wonder awareness perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: joy prayer desire abundance need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: God words experience joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email