Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
– Walt Whitman
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/217070-keep-your-face-always-toward-the-sunshine—and-shadows
Sep 302013
Sep 292013
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
– “Frank Outlaw” in Farmer’s Digest, Vol. 42 (1978), p. 20; also in A Treasury of Days : 365 Thoughts on the Art of Living (1983) by Dee Danner Barwick, p. 23.
Sep 282013
Live! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
– Auntie Mame, 1958 movie staring Rosalind Russell as Mame
Sep 272013
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Sep 262013
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
– William Blake, Proverbs of Hell, lines 3 and 46.
Sep 252013
I wear silk, the cover to uncover
because silk is what I want you think of.
But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern.
So tell me anything but track me like a climber
for here is the eye, here is the jewel,
here is the excitement the nipple learns.
I am unbalanced — but I am not mad with snow.
I am mad the way young girls are mad,
with an offering, an offering…
– Anne Sexton, from The Breast, in Love Poems
Sep 242013
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
– Mae West
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/174828-all-discarded-lovers-should-be-given-a-second-chance-but