To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/876-to-be-yourself-in-a-world-that-is-constantly-trying
Aug 212013
Aug 202013
I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
– Mae West
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1600-i-wrote-the-story-myself-it-s-about-a-girl-who
Aug 192013
I will speak ill of no man, not even in matter of truth; but rather excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasion speak all the good I know of everybody.
– Benjamin Franklin
http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/journeys-vol-three/2/
Aug 182013
Not easy to state the change you made.
If I’m alive now, then I was dead,
– Sylvia Plath, Love Letter
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8498455-Love_Letter-by-Sylvia_Plath
Aug 172013
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.
– John Quincy Adams, at Plymouth, 1802
Aug 162013
Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/255107-accidental-sex-he-made-it-sound-like-i-fell-down
Aug 152013
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/109425-trust-in-what-you-love-continue-to-do-it-and