Love is the beauty of the soul.

- Saint Augustine

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
- Mae West

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to like, suck the marrow our of every day and get the most out of it.
- Drew Barrymore

Only intensity matters.  Talent — you have it or you don't.
- Jean Cocteau

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- Tennessee Williams

A community is like a ship; everyone out to be prepared to take the helm.
- Henrick Ibsen

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur but the deep are dumb.
- Sir Walter Raleigh

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
- Calvin Triflin

If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
- Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
- Mary McCarthy

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
- Dante

Two can live as cheaply as one — if the both have good jobs.
- Freud

There is only one good knowledge and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates

If it's approval you want, don't be a writer.
- Faye Weldon

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate — that's my philosophy.
- Thorton Wilder

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

Writing is turning your worst moments into money.
- J. P. Donleavy

A Master of Art is not worth a fart.
- Andrew Boorde

I wouldn't dream of trying out my ideas on children on anyone else.  A book should be the work of an author's imagination not by the work of a committee.
- Beverly Clearly

He who has a reputation for early rising can sleep til noon.
- Alphonse Daudet

Success to me is having the honey dew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
- Barbara Streinsand

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them — a diminishing number in my case.
- Evelyn Waugh

Give me a dozen such heartbreaks if that would help me lose a couple of pounds.
- Lolette

Talent is a long patience.
- Gustave Flaubert

Only intensity matters.
- Jean Cocteau

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers

A paranoid is a man who knows little of what's going on.
- William Burroughs

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing and keeping the unknown is always beyond you.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Let us embrace and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
- Thomas Otway

Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by reusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
- Henri Fredrick Smiel

Who ever loved that not loved at first sight?
- Christopher Marlowe

The only place worth living is inside yourself and you have to make that place nice enough so that you want to live there.
- Anonymous

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
- Daniel Webster

Me, I'm scared of everything.  I'm scared of what I saw, of what I did, of who I am...but most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.
- Anonymous

If love is so easy to feel...why is it so hard to say?  Don't wait forever to say what you're feeling...forever is too far away.
- Anonymous

My only love is the love of dreams, therefore I have framed for myself as the bower of dreams.
- Edgar Allan Poe

If everything on earth was rational, nothing would happen.
- Feodor Dostoyevski

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.  That is the point that must be reached.
- Franz Kafka

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
- David Grayson

It's almost impossible nowadays to find anybody who will feel guilt about anything, including mass murder.
- Russell Baker

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
- Garrison Keillor

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
- H. L. Mencken

Insane people are always sure that they are fine.  It's only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
- Nora Ephron

What saves a man is to take a step.  Then another step.
- Antoine De Saint Exupery

A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- Alexander Pope

A friend is always good to have but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
- Dave Matthews

There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last.  There's only us, there's only this, forget regrets or life is yours to miss.  No other road, no other way.  No day but today.
- RENT
(Jonathan Larson)

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey

We may never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa

The lane of love is narrow - there is only room for one.

- Indian Aphorism

I am not always afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
- Katherine Hepburn

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- William Shakespeare
A MidSummer Nights Dream

‎"I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and no one else."
~Susan Fletcher

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

- C. S. Lewis

Appreciation is the purest, strongest form of love... it is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
 - Kelly Corrigan

A face without a smile is like a day without sunshine.
- Anonymous

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing.  We are sentenced to die the day were born.
- Gary Mark Gilmore

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The soul of a murderer is blind.
- Albert Camus

One can never consent to creep when someone feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo Di Vinci

Choice is the essence of what I believe is to be human.
- Liu Ullmas

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell

A bone to the dog is not charity.  Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
- Jack London

And, after all, what is a lie?  'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

- Lord Byron

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
- Dale Carnegie

Talk low, talk slow and don't talk too much.
- John Wayne

If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever.
- Anonymous

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation.  Trouble is, some men can't dance and talk at the same time.
- Ginger Rogers

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
- English Proverb

The fiery moments of a passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
- Anais Nin

Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
- Alex Noble

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

If you don't act as if your name were on the door, it never will be.
- Patricia Fripp

On days when warmth is the most important...the kitchen is the place you can find it.
- E. B. White

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.  It will never fail you.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- John Muir

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.
- Kurt Vonnegut

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”
― David McCullough

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” -Ernest Hemingway

‎"I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor, and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat."

Mark Twain

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou 

‎"Tragedy and humor are but two aspects of what is real and whether we see the tragic or humorous is a matter of perspective." - Arnold Beisser

‎"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal."
 F.A. Hayek

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? 


~George Orwell

"Our relationships with each other are vital in who we become and chose to be."


 - Doug Brown

“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” 

- Amy Poehler

I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet.  But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable.  Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you.  Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.  And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer.  And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you.   You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself.  And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.
- Good Will Hunting

She's not perfect.  You are not perfect.  The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
- Good Will Hunting