Assorted Quotes

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake


A man always has two reasons for doing anything --
a good reason and the real reason.

J.P. Morgan


I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain


The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

Ernest Hemingway


Common-sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you somebody else -- means
to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting."

e.e.cummings


"Suicide, like murder -- uncreative! Anyone desperate
enough for suicide, I thought, should be desperate enough
to go to creative extremes to solve problems:
elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand
and start over, do what they always wanted to do
but were afraid to try."

Richard Bach


From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in
that dark say to ourselves, "I am the sorcerer, and when
I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created,
and for which I and only I am completely responsible."
Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center.
And sure enough, there is our world, just the way we've built it.

Richard Bach, "Bridge Across Forever"


"the wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard lie down with the kid,
and a lizzard child shall lead them"

i don't know where this is from,
it was written on a plaque in my gran's hallway


"Presume not that I am the thing I was"

Henry IV, part 2


"a way of handling the shame of failure is to withdraw from
people into aloneness. its always sad when you meet someone who
tends to reject love when its offered for fear of being rejected
once more. people who do this idealize strength. their
philosophy is "i dont need anybody else; i dont want any
relationships. im strong enough to do without them.' but
underneath that facade they are merely avoiding those
people with whom they would risk further shame and rejection."

unknown

The most important things
are the hardest to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of
because words diminish them.
- words shrink things that seemed limitless
when they were in your head.
to no more than living size
when they were brought out.
The most important things lie too close
to wherever your secret heart is buried,

And you make revelations
that cost you dearly.
only to have people look at you
in a funny way.
not understanding what you have said
or why you thought it was so important
that you almost cried while saying it.
That's the worst, I think.
When the secret stays locked within
not for the want of the teller,
but for the need of an understanding ear.

Stephen King