Quotes

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.
— anonymous

Midlife — when you decide not to kill yourself because you realize you are going to die anyway.
— anonymous

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.
— Mary Kay Ash (1915 – 2001), founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business because we’d be cynical. Well that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
— Pearl S. Buck

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
— Paul Cezanne

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
— Tom Clancy (1947 –), author

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill

Good artists borrow; great artists steal.
— Salvador Dali

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.
— Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983), inventor

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
— Dee Hock, Founder of Visa

We’re flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
— Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968)

When two people love each other,
they don’t look at each other,
they look in the same direction.
— Ginger Rogers (1911 – 1995), actress and dancer

Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money, only for wanting to keep your own money.
— Joseph Sobran

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
— James Stephen

Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture.
— Steven Wright

A Collection of Quotes

There’s this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There’s still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that’s inherent – their femininity – in any way that might be considered seductive. – Demi Moore

I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. – Barbra Streisand

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good. – Barbra Streisand

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. – Barbra Streisand

Bitches. It’s a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who’s a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I’m not a mean person. Maybe I’m rude without being aware of it – that’s possible. – Barbra Streisand

I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror… – Barbra Streisand

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. – Angelina Jolie

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Angelina Jolie

I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. – Angelina Jolie

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. – Angelina Jolie

If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it. – Drew Barrymore

If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something. – Drew Barrymore

It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning. – Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. – Drew Barrymore

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. – Drew Barrymore

Quotes for Living

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." – Joseph Campbell

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing." – Agatha Christie

"Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice." -Agatha Christie

I Like Living

Sometimes I Think Creativity is Magic

"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.

An Optimist Stays Up

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

Found Quotes

"And I went through this whole thing, you know. I was like: Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized I’m just slutty….. Where’s my parade?"
Margaret Cho – I’m the One that I Want

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh ~ Voltaire

Too tired to babble. Good Night. Happy First Day of the New Year. Hope yours went well cause it’s just after midnight now and you can’t go back and fix it.

Writing Quotes

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Francoise Sagan

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I especially like the last one.

From Eric

Take my hand.
Let’s travel life together…
but let’s take time
to savor where we go.

We’ll measure distance,
not in miles but kisses.
We’ll pack our smiles
and leave our cares behind.

Instead of postcards,
we’ll collect embraces,
and I’ll memorize your face
on moonlit nights…

We’ll leave the road
for meadows, beaches, cafes,
and secret places
only we will know.

Life’s too short
for us to ever finish
a journey that explores
our heart’s desires,
so let’s go now…

We won’t regret
one minute
of traveling life together
hand in hand.

Alarie Tennille

Travel Life Together

Take my hand.
Let’s travel life together…
but let’s take time
to savor where we go.

We’ll measure distance,
not in miles but kisses.
We’ll pack our smiles
and leave our cares behind.

Instead of postcards,
we’ll collect embraces,
and I’ll memorize your face
on moonlit nights…

We’ll leave the road
for meadows, beaches, cafes,
and secret places
only we will know.

Life’s too short
for us to ever finish
a journey that explores
our heart’s desires,
so let’s go now…

We won’t regret
one minute
of traveling life together
hand in hand.

Alarie Tennille