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
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. —Colin Powell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. —Paul Goodman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. —John L. Motley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? —Henry Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email