If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
– Henry David Thoreau
Sep 302012
Sep 292012
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest . . . it’s about who came … stayed by your side, and never left you when you needed someone the most.
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Sep 282012
Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere— and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.
– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Sep 272012
When you do something, you should burn yourself up in it completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Sep 262012
I was in bed one night when my boyfriend Ernie said, “How come you never tell me when you’re having an orgasm?” I said to him, “Ernie, you’re never around.”
– Bette Midler
Sep 252012
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my inquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
-Dylan Thomas
Sep 242012
Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
– Ecclesiastes 11:4
http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/11-4.htm