Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try. —Lauren Dane in Giving Chase More about this quote Tags: life risk failure chances trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: dignity discipline self-respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: relationship intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. —Joan Baez More about this quote Tags: relationships intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: sadness settling heartbreak Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. —William James More about this quote Tags: philosophy philosophers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. —Charlotte Bronte More about this quote Tags: life hatred envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: writing meaning art criticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever you are too worried about someone else’s approval, that person loses respect for you. —Sherry Argov in Why Men Marry Bitches More about this quote Tags: respect approval Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. —Jean-Paul Sartre More about this quote Tags: life knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: ownership posessions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? —Jeanette Winterson More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery awe surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: gratitude nature honor divinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: nature cities Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email