Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. —J. E. Buchrose More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else... —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. —Leon Wieseltier More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. —William Faulkner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. —Ellen Goodman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. —Bette Davis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best. —Ken Doherty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. —James Bryant Conant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter. —Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older. —Randy Pausch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. —Holly Lisle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. —Ben Jonson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. —Paulette Bates Alden More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email