An Ocean of Quotations

[cite-belle]

“Writing gives me great feelings of pleasure. There’s a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It’s like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way. It’s very physical. I get antsy. I jiggle my feet a lot, get up a lot, tap my fingers on the keyboard, check my e-mail. Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it’s working and the rhythm’s there, it does feel like magic to me.”

Ray Bradbury

[word-digest-blog]

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[quoteocean]

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Isaac Asimov

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New affairs were exciting but they were also hard work. The first kiss, the first fuck had some drama. People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

Charles Bukowski

[kari-shma]

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William Burroughs 

[quoteocean]

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

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It is not money that makes you well-dressed, it is understanding.

Christian Dior

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Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

The Perks of being a Wallflower

[everguided]

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

[mkultra-waffles]

“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy’s first law of Equivalent Exchange.”

[enigmaticelements-blog-blog]

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

 Aldous Huxley (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)

[moreofamore-blog]

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Albert Einstein

[artpixie]

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

Oscar Wilde

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Even when I do things for the sake of others No sense of amazement or conceit arises. It is just like feeding myself; I hope for nothing in return.

Shantideva

[pantslessprogressive]

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another, and science will do for them all that they wish and more than they can dream… Nothing is final. Change is unceasing and it is likely that mankind has a lot more to learn before it comes to its journey’s end… We might even find ourselves in a few years moving along a smooth causeway of peace and plenty instead of roaming around on the rim of Hell. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else - and I cannot believe that the human race will not find its way through the problems that confront it, although they are separated by a measureless gulf from any they have known before…. Thus we may by patience, courage, and in orderly progression reach the shelter of a calmer and kindlier age.

Winston Churchill

[evoketheforms]

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean | A River Runs Through It 

[moreofamore-blog]

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw