March 2012
100 posts
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the...”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for...”
February 2012
72 posts
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against...”
– Albert Einstein
“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being...”
– Winston S. Churchill
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by...”
– Plato
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who...”
– JD Salinger
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in...”
– Albert Einstein
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget...”
– Maya Angelou
“Forever is composed of nows.”
– Emily Dickinson (via girlwithoutwings)
“True fortitude is not to fear death; for death is nothing more than a certain...”
– Plotinus | An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”
– Bernard Meltzer (via julie911)
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still...”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness...”
– John Steinbeck
“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
– William Goldman (The Princess Bride)
“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a...”
– Candance Bushnell
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
– Dave Eggers
“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in...”
– George Byron
“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello...”
– Jimi Hendrix
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for...”
– Albert Einstein
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is...”
– Albert Einstein
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus (via burnthazel)
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like...”
– George Washington
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried...”
– George Washington
“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of...”
– George Washington
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“It is not a matter of how many you love but rather how much you love.”
“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”
– George Gershwin
“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”
– Mark Twain
“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs...”
– Paulo Coelho
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it...”
– John Lennon
““If you love and get hurt, love more.
If you love more and hurt more, love...”
– William Shakespeare
“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something...”
– Mitch Albom
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a...”
– Mitch Albom
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become...”
– Ingrid Bergman
“Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or...”
– Robert Kennedy
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,...”
– James Baldwin