You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong.
—Alain de Botton
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.
—David Foster Wallace
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
—Socrates
The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.
—Donna Lynn Hope
Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.
—Julia Quinn in With Love
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
—Harry S. Truman
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
—Quentin Crisp
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
—Laurence J. Peter
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
—e. e. cummings
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
—Salvador Dali
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
—Mitch Hedberg
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
—G. K. Chesterton
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
—e. e. cummings
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
—Nicolas Chamfort