Madeleine L’Engle
That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.
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If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler
Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Thomas Guthrie
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to
Ronald Reagan
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman