There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. —Graham Greene More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult. —E. B. White More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. —Bishop Desmond Tutu More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. —Antonio Porchia More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition. —Katharine Hepburn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. —John Stuart Mill More about this quote Tags: fitting in nonconformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. —Czeslaw Milosz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past. —Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not. —Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming More about this quote Tags: love certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. —Steve Maraboli More about this quote Tags: life acceptance perspective rejection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: love relationships regret church marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think about how we can't always live in the moment because moments pass, and when we're lucky, we have the kind of moments that we can't help wanting to go back to. We think about them, remember how they felt, and when more time passes we tell stories of these moments that are worth reliving. —Dana Reinhardt in How to Build a House More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: love inevitability ever after Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences. —Gwendolyn Heasley in A Long Way from You More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email