The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You'll never have your happy ending unless you're brave enough to open the book and start your story. —L.B. Simmons in Running on Empty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else. —Mary Balogh in The Devil's Web More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe I didn't need all the time anyway. Just a couple of hours, a good breakfast, and a chance to talk with the two people who knew me best, no matter who I was. —Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible. —Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing More about this quote Tags: enough affection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. —P. J. O'Rourke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: work furniture wood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. —Thomas H. Huxley More about this quote Tags: science tragedy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: silence art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. —Clarence Darrow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. —Honoré de Balzac More about this quote Tags: love beauty intelligence ugliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He sparked a fire inside of me, making me want to live again. —Lisa Schroeder in Far from You More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email