To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd. —Robert Herrick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. —Sheila Graham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. —Edward Everett Hale More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. —Cicero More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't always get to choose what we love. —Scott Westerfeld More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words? —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. —Margaret Lee Runbeck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. —Charles DuBois More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. —Socrates More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. —David Starr Jordan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email