January 2011
93 posts
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
– Chinese Proverb
December 2010
132 posts
I’m enjoying getting to know you. Stay who you are. In some ways, you are like...
– Anh Thao
Still though, I think if you’re not self-obsessed, you’re probably boring.
– Dave Eggers
Life may suck, but the alternative is unacceptable.
– Anonymous
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
– Dorothy L. Sayers
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of...
– Montaigne
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for...
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
We do not remember days, we remember moments
– Cesare Pavese
It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything...
– Nicholas Sparks
I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as...
– Alexander McQueen
My ambition is to be happy.
– Penelope Cruz
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how they...
– Optimus Prime
You cant trust somebody who thinks you’re crazy.
– Penelope Cruz
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved —loved for...
– Victor Hugo
We’re bound to run into obstacles in life. We might trip, and we might fall. But...
– Life’s Little Wonders
My generation’s apathy. I’m disgusted with it. I’m disgusted with my own apathy...
– Kurt Cobain
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say “wow, that was an...
– Tom Preston-Werner
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...
– Anaïs Nin
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...
– James Baldwin
The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they’re...
– Randy Pausch
When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that...
– Randy Pausch
Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and...
– Randy Pausch
Look, I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be...
– Randy Pausch
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do...
– Randy Pausch
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right...
– Randy Pausch
When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple....
– Randy Pausch
It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead...
– Randy Pausch
The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want...
– Randy Pausch
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
– Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
– Randy Pausch
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the...
– Salma Hayek
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be...
– Armistead Maupin
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
– Albus Dumbledore
Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness...
– Anonymous
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...
– Marcel Pagnol
The desire to improve oneself. If that dies, one is a living corpse.
– Uruha, the GazettE
The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.
– Blaise Pascal
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in...
– Indira Gandhi
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been...
– C.S Lewis
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through...
– St. Francis of Assisi
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
– St. Francis of Assisi
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his...
– James Oppenheim
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
– C.S. Lewis
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest...
– Louis E. Boone
Good doesn’t exist without evil. Good wouldn’t have a meaning, if we never knew...
– Beatriz Daquioag
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
– William Arthur Ward
You don’t need to give reasons for the things you do - you just have to do what...
– Kristen Stewart
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the...
– Lady Diana