You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. —Maya Angelou More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. —David Carradine More about this quote Tags: life advice poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently. —Agnes de Mille More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Einstein discovered a law of physical change: the way to convert a single particle of matter into enormous physical energy. Might there not also be, as Gandhi suggested, an equally incredible and (as yet) undiscovered law of spiritual change, whereby a single person or small community of persons could be converted into an enormous spiritual energy capable of transforming a society and a world? I believe that there is, that there must be, a spiritual reality corresponding to E = mc squared, because . . . from the standpoint of moral freedom, humankind is sentenced to extinction without it. —James W. Douglass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. —Jorge Luis Borges More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow. —James Schuyler More about this quote Tags: time growth planting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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