I have been collecting the quotes for this post over the past six months. In moments of despair or quandary, I find comfort in our human lack of uniqueness as illustrated in attributable quotes. Someone, somewhere, at some point in time, felt what we're feeling and is giving us the words to articulate it. Or they are simply more sagacious or comical than we are. There is a reason I leave stand-up comedy to my friend, Matt Fulchiron. Only I find myself funny. That's okay. My loved ones find me finding myself funny, funny enough. Follow that? I'm cracking up. See what I mean? :) Enjoy!
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying. - Walter Kim
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful. - Marilyn Monroe
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. - Hans Christian Andersen
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. - Michael Crichton
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. - Flannery O'Connor
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. - Daphne du Maurier
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Numbers constitute the only universal language. - Nathanael West
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. - Gabriel García Márquez
There's something ugly about the flawless. - Dennis Lehane
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own. - Henry Green
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. - Maria Montessori
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. - Boris Pasternak
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. - Doris Lessing
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. - Anne Tyler
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. - Anne Rice
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead. - Fannie Flagg
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. - Kathleen Winsor
The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.
- Anne Perry
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. - Jane Smiley
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
Yours,
MM
