Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Jane Austen
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing has really happened until it has been described.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Zelda Fitzgerald
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Émile Zola
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.