Thoughtful Thursday XLI
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
~Aldous Huxley
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
~Virginia Woolf
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham
Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
~Virginia Woolf
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
~Jack London
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
~Elmer G. Letterman
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
~Julian Barnes
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through
~Chinese Proverb
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.
~Romain Rolland
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~Francis Bacon
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
~Lloyd Alexander
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
~Abigail Adams
~Aldous Huxley
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
~Virginia Woolf
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham
Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
~Virginia Woolf
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
~Jack London
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
~Elmer G. Letterman
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
~Julian Barnes
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through
~Chinese Proverb
Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.
~Romain Rolland
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
~Francis Bacon
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
~Lloyd Alexander
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
~Abigail Adams