“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” — Dan Brown
“Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.” ― Bertrand Russell
“Don’t make a long story short just so you can tell another one.” — Anonymous
“When you walk with bare feet, you never forget the earth. [ed]” — Carl Jung
“To live, it seems, is to accumulate at least some regrets.” — Cornell University Study **
“Honesty is telling the truth, not only to others but to ourselves as well…” — Luke Glowacki
“Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.” — Unknown
** http://psych.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/Gilo_%26_Medvec_95.pdf
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow…Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin
“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” — Noël Coward
“I’m not arguing. I am simply explaining why I’m right.” — Unknown
“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whether, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.” — Thornton Wilder
“Where there is love, there is no imposition.” — Albert Einstein
“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” — Anton Chekhov
“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” — Herbert Rappaport
“In Vino Veritas” [ “In wine there is truth” ] — Latin Proverb, Downton Abbey – Season 5
“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have” — Alice Walker
“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” — Sir Winston Churchill
“Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.” — Clifton Fadiman
“When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows.” — Rachel Houston
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.” — Albert Camus
“It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If something’s neither here nor there, where is it? [ed]” — Charles ‘Chic’ Murray
“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.” — Samuel Richardson
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” — Eric Sevareid
“To live is to feel oneself lost.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset
“God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.” — Victor Hugo
“To be prepared is half the victory.” — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist
“He speaketh not, and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You do your rebellions any way you can.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” — Erma Bombeck
