Another Voice

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. -T.S. Eliot

Be Brave

Be glad. Be good. Be brave. -Eleanor H. Porter

Don't Edit

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. -Franz Kafka

What Books

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read... -Keri Hulme

A Way With Words

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. -Steve Martin

Smiley Faces

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches. -Richelle E. Goodrich

Cake

Nobody gets everything in this life. I decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten. -Donald E. Westlake

Christmas

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. -Mary Ellen Chase

Under A Tree

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. -Roy L. Smith

A Garden

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. -Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sincere Ignorance

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King Jr.

One Guy

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. -Marilyn Monroe

Comfort

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. -Aldous Huxley

Delicate Softness

When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. -Laurell K. Hamilton

Today

"What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. -A.A. Milne

Debilitating

Carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it. -Katharine Graham

Travel

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Darkness

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift. -Mary Oliver

A Language

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -Mark Twain

A Priority

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. -Maya Angelou

Tired

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Some People

Some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson. And that's why they're here. -Danielle Steel

A More Perfect World

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. -Guy de Maupassant

Open Your Heart

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. -Kate DiCamillo

One Word

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. -Sophocles

Fairy-Tales

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. -Audrey Hepburn

No Winter

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. -Hal Borland

Exceptional

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry

Whoever Is Around

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. -Kurt Vonnegut

Less Difficult

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? -George Eliot

Thinking Alike

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton Jr.