Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. —Horace Mann More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. —Ellen Goodman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed. —Peter McWilliams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat. —Ali Vincent More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy. —Sean Stewart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I cannot live without books. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'. —Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. —Lord Chesterfield More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is. —Hadewijch of Antwerp More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email