March 2011
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
– Heraclitus
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have...”
– Nora Ephron
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“When people say, ‘She’s got everything’…I’ve got one answer - I haven’t had tomorrow.”
Elizabeth Taylor via Gadabout
“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lou Holtz (via kari-shma)
“We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via theseblackwoods)
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“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You...”
– Rosalyn Carter (via kari-shma)
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
“I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via justbesplendid)
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only...”
– Oscar Wilde. (via quote-book)
“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via tobeshelved)
“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music....”
– Margaret Atwood (via austinkleon)
“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
– Michael Marino
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank...”
– William Ernest Henley
“The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating - in work, in play,...”
– Anne Morris
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one...”
– Brian W. Aldiss
