Edith Sitwell

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.”

John Wilson

“Oh for a book and a shady nook…”

April Foiles

“I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It’s so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?”

Lyman Beecher

“Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.”

Elizabeth Aston

“It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.”

Laurence J. Peter

“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”

Mother Teresa

“Joy is prayer – Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

Margot Fonteyn

“If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”

Lisa Williams

“The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.”

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