"But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors." - Virginia Woolf

"Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you." Maya Lin.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~St. Francis of Assisi

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~Mark Twain

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughn

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ~Aristotle

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. ~C.S. Lewis

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ~Mark Twain

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~Albert Einstein

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemmingway

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras

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green eyed kat

You're so cool..I like all of them...here's another of my favorites...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. ~~Helen Keller

"There are three things important in life: honesty, which means living free of the cunning of the mind, compassion, because if we have no concern for others, we are monsters; and curiosity, for is the mind is not searching, it is dull and unresponsive." -Beatrice Wood

I think curiousity is the main one of the three. How could you exist without curiousity? The other two are usually fake anyway.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen — no retouching, no shadows, no flattery — just stark me.

I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.