“But our preferences do not determine what’s true.” — Carl Sagan
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” — Maxim Gorky
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” — Kendall Hailey
“Art is anything you can get away with.” — Marshall McLuhan
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” — Pearl Buck
“If you talk to the animals they will talk to you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, You will not know them. And what you do not know You will fear. What one fears one destroys.” — Chief Dan George
“We love the things we love for what they are.” — Robert Frost
“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” — Unknown
“But eyes are blind. You have to look with your heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.” ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“To confer favours with propriety and grace requires something that riches cannot give.[ed]” — Charles Caleb Colton
“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” – Woody Allen
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” — George S. Patton
“Knowing a person is like music. What attracts us is their melody and as we get to know who they are, we learn their lyrics.” — Unknown
“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.” — Anaïs Nin
“Every dogma has its day.” — Anthony Burgess
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember…the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” — Zig Ziglar
“Ubiquitous doesn’t mean forever, and popular isn’t permanent. Someone is going to fade, and someone is going to be next to take their place.” — Seth Godin
“There is no thief like a bad book.” — Italian proverb
Factoid — “Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That’s what’s going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“The soul is the voice of the body’s interests.” — George Santayana
“If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?” — Dolores Huerta
“No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” — May Sarton
“I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.” — Terry Pratchett
“One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.” — Richard Francis Burton
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” — Louis L’Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.” — Phyllis McGinley
“Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.” — Erik Pepke
“Fatigue is the best pillow.” — Benjamin Franklin
“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” — Bruce Barton
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer
“We can defeat gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. [ed]” — Wernher von Braun
