Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2010

IT ALL BELONGS TO YOU

I found my first Quote Book about a month ago in a box of old books. From there it, and the rest of the books, found a new home in the guest room closet. I have no inspiration today. My thoughts are not positive, happy ones and yet I promised to post something every day. And then I remembered my Quote book, aka my loophole. I found a way out; I don't have to post MY thoughts today. Today I can post thoughts that have inspired me or simply stopped me in my tracks to reevaluate.


"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."
~Emily Bronte

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."
~Aldous Huxley


"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention."
~Kelvin Throop, III

"In the long run you hit what you aim for. Therefore, though you should fail immediately you had better aim at something high."
~Henry David Thoreau

"People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you."
~W. Somerset Maugham


"Don't oppose forces, use them. God is a verb, not a noun."
~R. Buckminister Fuller

"While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important."
~Walter Lippman

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald


"Well, being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and the left.
~Jean Kerr

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you, and afterwards it all belongs to you."
~Ernest Hemingway