“Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”
― Bobbe Sommer
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Ray Bradbury
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Nell Zink
“Even his fucking was binary, a sorting process by which certain practices could be tried and found wanting or approved and accorded benchmark status.”
– Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper
Allen Ginsberg
“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
George Bernard Shaw
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversations.” – George Bernard Shaw
Peter Pan
“All it takes is faith, trust, & a little pixie dust.”
– Peter Pan ✨
Tana French
“I’ve always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you’re over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he’s not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he’s into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”
― Tana French, Faithful Place
Milton
“What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th’unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
– Milton: Paradise Lost, 1667
Cervantes
“My honor is dearer to me than my life.”
– Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1604
Leon Trotsky
“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”
– Leon Trotsky
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edith Sitwell
“I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell
Albert Einstein
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein
Frida Kahlo
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.” – Frida Kahlo
Joss Whedon
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon
Christian Dior
“By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.”
― Christian Dior
Thomas Jefferson
Coltrane
“To try to become a saint.”
– John Coltrane (when asked what he was going to do next)
Shakespeare
“As it is base for a soldier to love; so I am in love with a base wench.”
– William Shakespeare: Love’s Labor Lost, 1594
Jodi Picoult
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Margaret Chittenden
“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
― Margaret Chittenden
Hans Christian Andersen
“Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.” – Hans Christian Andersen
Image by iris Vallejo from Pixabay
Jayne Mansfield
“A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.”
Jayne Mansfield
Aristotle
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle
Leo Tolstoy
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
William Butler Yeats
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – William Butler Yeats
Image by Brin Weins from Pixabay
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde
John D. MacDonald
“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset.”
― John D. MacDonald
Friedrich Nietzsche
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Stephen Chbosky
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Karl Lagerfeld
“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
Karl Lagerfeld
Ambrose Bierce
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
Ambrose Bierce
Tom Robbins
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
John Muir
“The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir
Walt Whitman
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.”
– Walt Whitman
Leo Durocher
“Show me a man who doesn’t go down on his wife and I’ll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight.”
– Leo Durocher
Edgar Allan Poe
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
Oscar Wilde
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde
Coco Chanel
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel
Rita May-Brown
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
― Rita Mae Brown
Oscar Wilde
“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde
Stephen Fry
“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the alter of language and purity and tolerance.” – Stephen Fry
It’s A Wonderful Life
Rachel! It’s not exact, but here you go.
“Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”
– It’s A Wonderful Life
P.S. I’m super excited that I can figure out how to insert links. An old dog CAN learn new tricks! Ta-da! (spirit fingers)
Auden
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
– W.H. Auden
Twain
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain
