The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. --Eden Phillips
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart. --Jeanne Marie Laskas
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. --Mother Teresa
Writers are hostages to mailmen. Those uniformed civil servants have no inkling of their power, how each daily delivery carries the possibility of exultation, or despair. Even Sundays and holidays sustain hope. Perhaps the following day some good word will arrive. --Susan S. Kelly, How Close We Come
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. --Phyllis Theroux in House Beautiful
When in doubt, duck. --Malcolm Forbes
A custom loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs. --King James on smoking (1620)
All true wisdom is found on t-shirts. --Anon
And another thing... Hanson blows. --Donald Trump
Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads, or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things; it's leaving the world a little better than when you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others. --Charles DeLint, Dreams Underfoot
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. --Lily Tomlin
Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I. --Anon
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. --Frederick L. Knowles
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. --Juan Ramon Jimenez
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. --Kahlil Gibran
I hate quotations. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. --Shakespeare
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. --Froude
What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement. --Fred Allen
His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open. --Howard Hughes, referring to Clark Gable
A single rose can contain all the suns and worlds of the universe... --Anon
A day without any computer problems in the best day of your life. --Ricky Lankford
I feel like I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe. --Anon
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. --Anatole France
I am what I am, and that's all that I am. --Popeye
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. --Thomas Edison
I gotta be me. --Sammy Davis, Jr.
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about. --Sam Ewing
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exits elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. --Calvin in Bill Watterson’s comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes
The past is but a beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. --H. G. Wells
So if you close your ears, you won’t hear them crying / And if you close your eyes, you won’t see them dying / And if you close your mind, your heart won’t condemn / If the future’s born with every birth / How much is a child’s life worth? / We must [save] the children of the earth, for the future dies with them. --Eric Bogle, Feed the Children
I am not young enough to know everything. --Oscar Wilde
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