- Ernest Hemingay: "All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
- Ken Ilgunas: "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
- Tara Ploughman: "Never offer what you'd hate someone for accepting."
- Shannon L. Alder: “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.”
- Khaled Hosseini: “For you, a thousand times over."
- Arundhati Roy: “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
- Susan Sontag: “The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”
- George Pólya":“The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.”
- Plato: "There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."
- Dr. Seuss: "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
- John Steinbeck: "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
jul 19 2015 ∞
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