Joy is the best makeup.

© Anne Lamott @quote

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

© Francois Mauriac @quote

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

© Arthur Conan Doyle @quote

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe @quote

I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

© F. Scott Fitzgerald @quote

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

© Oscar Wilde @quote

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

© Lao Tzu @quote

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

© Paul McCartney @quote

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

© Oscar Wilde @quote

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

© Wayne Dyer @quote

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

© Michelangelo Buonarroti @quote

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

© Andrew Jackson @quote

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

© Harry Burchell Mathews @quote

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

© Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

© William Faulkner @quote

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

© Robert McKain @quote

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

© George Orwell @quote

If I can't do it, I will work on it until I can. If I become able to do it, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly. If I become able to do it perfectly, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly any number of times.

© Yuzuru Hanyu @quote

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

© Don DeLillo @quote

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

© Manuel Puig @quote

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

© George Santayan @quote