• I saw that he felt even more than he said - conan doyle story, the japanned box
• But the world is governed by ceaseless change and we must therefore establish links with the present and future as well as the past.
• Each day is a fresh beginning, a little life unto itself. -Leo Buscaglia
• a winking galaxy of jangled wist, sweet, staggered harmonies and a gawky, yearning sense of wonder. And beneath the crusty shell of apathy and cynicism and the buzz and fuzz and hiss isn't that, fundamentally, what the best indie rock is always trying to communicate? - Amy Granzin on Pete and the Pirates
• negligible
• solace
• Jack Dorsey: We're fond of constraints that inspire creativity. Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything. [founder of twitter, about twitter's 140 character posts]
• Alicia on Posie Gets Cozy: Why has it taken me so long to get here, or is this, in fact, just the right time?
• "Dare to walk a new path. Dare to strike out and find new ground." - Robin Williams on Dead Poets Society
• ‘I walked into the studio when they were doing “Meeting Place”, adds Miles Kane; ‘this little song you’ve written in your bedroom is being played by an orchestra! I went cold’. the last shadow puppets
• Even if we have continuously repressed or neglected the truest aspects of our being, that energy can come back into our lives with only the slightest invitation. Because, that which is true rests easy and hopeful – like flowers rest in winter, knowing that spring always comes. There's no need to fret over faded passion. Your mojo and moxy are always within reach. What part of you would you like to revive? -
• Rip your heart out.
• The who-ness of someone can never be finally named, known, claimed, controlled or predicted. The who is beyond all frames and frontiers and dwells in the mystery of its own reflexivity and infinity. Who has no map. ... Beauty is the inconceivable made so intimate that it illuminates our hearts. - all by Danielle LaPorte
• May your pessimism be smashed upon the rocks of an island of joyous reality. -Sterling
• Creativity and suffering are inherently linked, and creativity will always lead to anguish. (a question, rather) - Elizabeth Gilbert on TED speech (christine kane's blog)
• Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
• I felt it shelter to speak to you. - Emily Dickinson
• If we can offer each other a cognizance of mystery through the poems we share, isn't that a greater gift? Won't a sense of inevitable mystery underpinning our intricate lives serve us better than the notion that we will each be given a neat set of blanks to fill in -- always? - Naomi Nye (http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring95/Nye.html)
• Perhaps life is just that...a dream and a fear. [Joseph Conrad]
• "What is it about this small chaotic thrill, and thinking for a second you may remain forever locked out of what you left behind and where you’re going? Like life." - iambossy.com
• You love to love, not to get something back, or it isn't love. - Leo Buscaglia
• They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, p. 37

Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Yahweh of hosts. [Psalm 84:3] What we do in life echoes in eternity.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. [George Bernard Shaw] In the best times of my life I always think I am making room, even more room in me. Here I shovel away snow, there I raise aloft a piece of fallen sky; there are superfluous lakes, I let them run out (I save the fish), overgrown forests, I drive crowds of apes into them, everything is astir, but there’s never enough room, I never ask why, I never feel why, I just have to keep making room, on and on, and as long as I can do so, I merit my life. [Elias Canetti] By giving up something of a lower order, we achieve something of a higher order. [Dr. Leo Buscaglia] You reel out love's long line alone, stripped like a live wire loosing its sparks to a cloud, like a live wire loosed in space to longing and grief everlasting. [Annie Dillard] The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. [Carl Jung] The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundsings is a model of the great world. The more intensively a family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier minature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally, this is not a concious, intellectual process. [Carl Jung] The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. [Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894] There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. [Jane Austen] Each day is a fresh beginning, a little life unto itself. [Leo Buscaglia ] I live for the sound of people singing together. [Chris Martin] If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. [Brendan Francis] My work is a game, a very serious game. [M. C. Escher] Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends can only read the title. [Virginia Woolf] There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. [Lewis Carrol] Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. [C. S. Lewis] There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. [John Buchan] All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. [Benedict Spinoza] How am I not myself? [Jude Law as Brad Stand in I Heart Huckabees] Art is not about thinking something up, it is the opposite - getting something down." [Julia Cameron] It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. [Oscar Wilde]