Quote of the Day

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours

Charles Bukowski

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

George Edward Woodberry

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

Stephen Chbosky

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Anne Enright

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Orhan Pamuk

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

Andrew Sullivan

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Clyde Tombaugh

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Andy Dick

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.

Neil Cross

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Mike Krzyzewski

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

Michael Kors

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin