What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. —Anna Jameson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all. —John Muir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be a fountain, not a drain. —Rex Hudler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. —Robert R. Coveyou More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. —Amelia Burr More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older I get, the more I feel / almost beautiful... —Sharon Olds More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. —Erica Jong More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. —Clifton Fadiman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. —Betty Friedan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. —Edmund Spenser More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email