“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.”
― Anthony Trollope
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.”
― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
I think how small I am in the vastness of the universe. Then I look at the ant on my sleeve, and gloat.
Not sure to whom this should be attributed.
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevens
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.”
― George W. Bush
“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli
@edgarblythe,
"Keep some room in your heart for all the children of the world."
@edgarblythe,
"Keep some room in your amygdala for the unimaginable. "
My new motto.
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise: A Play
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem
Racism isn't getting worse. It's getting filmed.
Will Smith
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to become pirates.” –Mark Twain, Life On the Mississippi
"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."-Arnold Palmer
“There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.” ― Frank Zappa.
Welcome to Banned Books Week!!
@edgarblythe,
I think I may have posted this before, but in the spirit of your post here it is again.
Take away the right to say "****" and you take away the right to say "**** the government.". Lenny Bruce.
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so ******* what."
[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
― Stephen Fry
