Sunday, August 9, 2009

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure


Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
-- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
-- Matthew Arnold, 'God and the Bible,' 1875

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
-- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

A little drama wins more friends than boring.
-- Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
-- William Shakespeare

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-- Oscar Wilde

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
-- John Cage

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