- "We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry." - E.B. White
- "Smells are surer than sounds or sights to make your heartstrings crack." - Rudyard Kipling, "Lichtenberg"
- "What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined." - Vernon Lee, "About Leisure"
- "Nature gives you the face you have at 20; it is up to you to merit the face you have at 50." - Coco Chanel
- "I think the weirdest feeling in the world is when you look at your reflection in a mirror and you look for a long time and just think about yourself. You start to doubt that you're really yourself." - Anon.
- "I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong." - Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
- "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip." - J.M. Barrie
- "Happiness is a place between too little and too much." - Finnish proverb
- "Either that wallpaper goes or I do." - Oscar Wilde, last words
- "Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense." - Helen Rowland
- "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." - Rose Franken
- "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" - New England maxim
- "I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children." - Jack Kerouac
- "Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do." - C.S. Lewis
- "What you read when you don't have to determines what you will be when you can't help it." - Oscar Wilde
- "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of view points, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes." - Neil Gaiman
jun 28 2011 ∞
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