Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[randallFlaggfan1]

"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

[J.T. Adams]

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

- Peter Straub

[Haunted]

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame,
very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals,
deep-burning and unquenchable
~ Bruce Lee

[redvelvettears]

'carpe diem before you run out of diem.' -kelly link

'there are no mistakes. the events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.” -richard bach

'it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.'
e. e. cummings

'the punishable sin is not lust, not even adultery, the sin is not to do with sex at all. it is a failure of feeling. not an excess of passion but a lack of compassion.' -jeanette winterson

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

-George Sand

[Haunted]

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night,
a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life
~ Ana Alas

[Haunted]

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
~ Golda Meir

[J.T. Adams]

'I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.'

- Michael Jordan

[sonofcana]

“We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese Foreign Minister

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Writing is the great invention of the world.”
-Abraham Lincoln, Discoveries and Inventions: A Lecture, delivered in 1860.