“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
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- Harry Crews, 1935 - 2012
July 2012
16 posts
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
—Gary Zukav
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
—Cormac McCarthy
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
—Hunter S. Thompson
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
—C.S. Lewis
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
—E.B. White
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
—Glen Cook
“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding.”
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- Dorothy Thompson, 1893 - 1961
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
—Jean de La Fontaine
“A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden ful of weeds.”
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John D. Rockefeller
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.”
—Barbara Kingsolver (via kari-shma)
“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
—George Sand
