tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64460756854264324002024-03-13T22:19:43.871-07:00Seed of Wonder: The Quote Book"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul." - EMERSONJessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comBlogger726125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-71960681156550312762012-03-16T21:45:00.001-07:002012-03-16T21:45:17.075-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">— NEIL DEGRASSE TYSO</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-11962029744580467112011-12-19T00:09:00.001-08:002011-12-19T00:09:11.846-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Ring the bells that still can ring</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Forget your perfect offering</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There is a crack, a crack in everything</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That’s how the light gets in."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">- LEONARD COHEN</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-28444774128220311802011-08-11T01:59:00.001-07:002011-08-11T01:59:49.537-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- GEORGE ELIOT</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-57179394271812059572011-08-11T01:57:00.001-07:002011-08-11T01:57:52.051-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-49825324964359590182011-08-11T01:55:00.001-07:002011-08-11T01:55:30.517-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- E.E. CUMMINGS</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-67162937507669670662011-08-11T01:48:00.000-07:002011-08-11T01:48:46.672-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. They are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. They are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. This happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. People in the second category, on the other hand, can always come up with the eyes they need. Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is as dangerous as the situation of people in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">-MILAN KUNDERA,</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Unbearable Lightness of Being</span></i></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-53223672227319400762011-08-11T01:43:00.001-07:002011-08-11T01:55:42.636-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-RALPH WALDO EMERSON</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-73213474594117935002011-08-11T01:41:00.001-07:002011-08-11T01:41:21.322-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-GOETHE</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-17868327734635393922011-08-11T01:39:00.000-07:002011-08-11T01:39:21.918-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- SIGMUND FREUD</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-82543348037114015452011-05-17T15:56:00.001-07:002011-05-17T15:56:40.007-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-RALPH WALDO EMERSON</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-15782529937099484052011-04-06T09:55:00.001-07:002011-04-06T09:56:35.894-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"In order to arrive at what you do not know</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In order to possess what you do not possess</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You must got by the way of dispossession.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In order to arrive at what you are not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You must got through the way in which you are not."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">-T.S. ELIOT</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-61118265792249440792011-03-13T20:29:00.001-07:002011-03-13T20:29:37.108-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"A young Apollo, golden-haired,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Magnificently unprepared </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For the long littleness of life."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-FRANCES CORNFORD</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-74156520989826002452011-01-03T00:36:00.000-08:002011-01-03T00:36:13.176-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." </span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-48855013573360521992010-12-19T23:36:00.001-08:002010-12-19T23:36:04.452-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-FRENCH PROVERB</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-2048942835371234522010-12-19T23:35:00.001-08:002011-08-11T02:00:13.478-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">"Wine is bottled poetry."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-5135114463360184102010-12-19T23:20:00.001-08:002010-12-19T23:20:31.676-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">-TENNESSEE WILLIAMS</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-17917036209705518862010-12-19T23:19:00.001-08:002011-08-11T01:56:10.422-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">WASHINGTON IRVING</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-62752084727587742362010-12-19T23:09:00.001-08:002010-12-19T23:09:38.189-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">- MAYA ANGELOU</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-44804146227500416242010-12-19T23:08:00.001-08:002010-12-19T23:08:31.087-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-ANAIS NIN</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-35452387651756415162010-12-19T23:06:00.001-08:002010-12-19T23:06:13.511-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-79593279044332075072010-12-04T20:39:00.001-08:002010-12-04T20:39:52.298-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn out soil. My children ... shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-7286771197632610162010-12-03T20:22:00.001-08:002010-12-03T20:22:38.126-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">- T.S. ELIOT</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-87052568594155763612010-12-01T20:17:00.001-08:002010-12-01T20:17:54.286-08:00"somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond<br />
any experience, your eyes have their silence:<br />
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,<br />
or which i cannot touch because they are too near<br />
<br />
your slightest look easily will unclose me<br />
though i have closed myself as fingers,<br />
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens<br />
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose<br />
<br />
or if your wish be to close me, i and<br />
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,<br />
as when the heart of this flower imagines<br />
the snow carefully everywhere descending;<br />
<br />
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals<br />
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture<br />
compels me with the colour of its countries,<br />
rendering death and forever with each breathing<br />
<br />
(i do not know what it is about you that closes<br />
and opens;only something in me understands<br />
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)<br />
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">- e.e.cummings</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-68480625412312135052010-11-28T02:12:00.000-08:002010-11-28T02:12:35.446-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Don't worry about getting to your point. I'm going to live forever."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-JACK DONAGHY,</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">30 Rock</span></i></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446075685426432400.post-84374218913303920382010-11-28T01:43:00.000-08:002010-11-28T01:43:09.596-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."</span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN</span></div>Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00819202923968287181noreply@blogger.com