Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse. As I have found when traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in anew place. —Washington Irving More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He's turned his life around. He used to be miserable and depressed; now he's depressed and miserable. —David Frost More about this quote Tags: change depression misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wanted a perfect ending. . . . Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. . . . Delicious ambiguity. —Gilda Radner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? —Richard Bach More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. —Lucille Ball More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two types of people — those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are. —Frederick L. Collins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. —Thomas Wolfe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. —Erma Bombeck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident; riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. —Horace Greeley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fame will go by and, so long; I've had you, fame. I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live. —Marilyn Monroe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because we aren't crying on the outside doesn't mean we aren't completely wrecked on the inside. —Rachel Van Dyken More about this quote Tags: sadness emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's weird. I never knew how much I had to hate about myself until I had the time to think about it. —Jason Myers in Exit Here More about this quote Tags: self-hatred thought reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself. —Molly McAdams in From Ashes More about this quote Tags: fear sadness heartbreak protection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email