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
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside. —Chris Messina More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email