February 2012
7 posts
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of...”
– “Atlas Shrugged” | P1C6 (Ayn Rand)
“This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having...”
– “Atlas Shrugged” | P1C7 (Ayn Rand)
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back...”
– John Ed Pearce
“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
– Edmund Burke
“A happy life must be, to a great extent, a quiet life, for it is only in an...”
– Bertrand Russell
“I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught.”
– Winston Churchill
January 2012
1 post
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means...”
– Harry Crews
December 2011
9 posts
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated...”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but...”
– Brian Andreas
“No one has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“The values of a nation begin in the homes of its people.”
– unknown
“We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.”
– Caroline Norton
“There are people who take the heart out of you and there are people who put it...”
– Elizabeth David
“Why did this happen to me?” we ask. It happened partly because we were...”
– June Cerza Kolf
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to...”
– J B Priestly
November 2011
4 posts
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Words affirm, seduce, clarify, define. Powerful enough to begin war and merciful...”
– Chatting at the Sky
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
– A. A. Milne
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to...”
– Helen Keller
October 2011
1 post
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship....”
– Goi Nasu
September 2011
11 posts
“He had burned everything there was to burn within him; he had scattered so many...”
– “Atlas Shrugged,” Part 1, Chapter 2 (Ayn Rand)
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
– C.S. Lewis
“A boy makes his girl jealous of other women. A gentleman makes other women...”
– unknown
“Every man builds his world in his own image,” he said. “He has the...”
– from “Atlas Shrugged” (Ayn Rand) [Part 3, Chapter 2]
“Paradise is always where love dwells.”
– Jean Paul Richter
1 tag
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Charles Dickens (via justbesplendid)
1 tag
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person....”
– Albert Schweitzer (via justbesplendid)
“Inevitably, though, I grew up, and with age came burdens. Kisses meant more now....”
– Ann Hood
“Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.”
– Adrienne Monnier
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
– Virgina Woolf
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own...”
– Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
“A year will pass, and then another and things will keep on changing. The only...”
– Patricia Amaro (The Doleful Passing of Lilies)
August 2011
15 posts
“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner...”
– C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and...”
– Alysha Speer (via julie911)
“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very...”
– L M Montgomery
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery &...”
– Ghandi
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to...”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction...”
– Jeanette Winterson
“Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
“I think your whole life shows in your face, and you should be proud of that.”
– Lauren Bacall
“There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing —...”
– Jodi Picoult
“My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can...”
– Emma Watson
“It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
– Moliere
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or...”
– Martin Luther
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something...”
– Barbara De Angelis
July 2011
6 posts
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler Ros
“The relief was not in the surrender of responsibility, but in the sight of a man...”
– “Atlas Shrugged” (Ayn Rand) - Part II, Chapter V