The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
– John Milton
Jan 052014
Jan 042014
We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
– Voltaire
Jan 032014
It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
– Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
Read The Velveteen Rabbit at the digital library of the University of Pennsylvania
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html
Jan 022014
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
– William Butler Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Jan 012014
Dec 312013
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
Dec 302013
Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
– Stephen King
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/167759-monsters-are-real-and-ghosts-are-real-too-they-live