She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. —Marita Bonner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. —Oprah Winfrey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What you are is a question only you can answer. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. —Ellen Glasglow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason. —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. —Aristotle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us. —Shlomo Bernartzi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. —Horace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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