Chocolate will revive you…
“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?” – Marquise de Sévigné
Castles in the air…
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
I would rather be a superb meteor…
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to […]
At this moment…
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey Ingredients for homemade spaghetti and meatballs
Grab whatever chance you have of happiness…
“but who can say what’s best? that’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. my experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, […]
Think of this life-time as a festival…
I count it happiness, Ere we go quickly thither whence we came, To gaze ungrieving on these majesties, The world-wide sun, the stars, water and clouds, and fire. Live, Parmeno, a hundred years Or a few months, these you will always see and never, never, any greater things. Think of this life-time as a festival […]
I twist my heart round again…
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world” –Anne Frank, Last […]
Now is wonderful…
Let’s have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. “Now thyself” is more important than “know thyself.” Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we […]
Distinguishes the living from the merely breathing…
“The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing”–Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder
If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you…
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said “Talk, child.” Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: “Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!” “Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the Unicorn, “if […]