"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
-Arnold Bennett
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
-Walt Whitman
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
-Randy Pausch
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."
-Emily Bronte
"What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!"
-Victor Hugo
"All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story."
-Diane Setterfield
^nothing is more telling than a story. I love that.
"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
-Ernest Hemingway
^this picture is entitled 'leaving home.' Doesnt that just break your heart?
"...please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will always believe the same about you."
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better.
It's not."
-Dr. Seuss
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."
-Phyllis McGinley
"Have you ever heard a joke so many times you've forgotten why its funny? And then you hear it again and suddenly its new. You remember why you loved it in the first place. A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal."
-Big Fish
"And it occured to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought."
-Mark Haddon
"If it's true that your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive."
-Amy Hempel
Impromptu Personal Thought-
"The soul endures. For better or for worse. If you can find beauty in that, you find beauty in everything."
