Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Bridget: "Wait a minute, nice guys don't kiss like that..."
Mr Darcy: "Oh yes they fucking do."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Jalal ad-Din Rumi (Persian Poet 1207-1273)

From The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo (p. 183)

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.THIS is how I have felt for the last few years. Thankfully it is coming to an end and I have started laying out ideas in my formerly empty moleskin sketchbook ( Read more... )

An excerpt I really like, from a person on my friends list:

I think this particular nickname, Chubby Chaser, bothers me because it is teetering between being mean and holding onto something that sort of resembles a sarcastic joke. If you want to be mean to me, just do it to my face ( Read more... )

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
- Ancient Native American Proverb

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and ( Read more... )

New quotes on my info page:

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
- Vincent Van Gogh

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections."

~ Katherine Paterson

jacked from kcwitch

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams all have different names, but they all contain water. So, too, different religions all contain truth.
- Muhammad Ali

I love this quote and I agree with it 150%

from this article: Dalai Lama urges tolerance

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
- Steven Wright

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge (1909 - )

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly ( Read more... )