Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
-- Fred Rogers
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
-- Chuang Tzu
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
-- Jane Austen
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
-- Earl Wilson
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
-- George Bernard Shaw
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
-- Charles de Lint
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
-- R.D. Laing
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
-- David Leavitt
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
-- Eliza Cook
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
-- Lewis Carroll
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
-- John Updike
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
-- Howard Zinn
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
-- Pablo Picasso
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
-- Emily Bronte
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.
-- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
