Start a book of quotes that mean something to me

“If I wanted a long, boring story with no point to it, I got my life” Seinfeld

I’ll keep adding to it as I come across stuff I like.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

p.r.i.n.t.e.d

“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

I’m going to buy a pretty book tomorrow. I really like this one. I think I want to add little poems in there as well. (Hey, it’s my book!)

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ~Ellen DeGeneres

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ~Joseph Wood Krutch

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he’s normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. —Maynard

“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man…” -Isaiah 66:3

The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage. He is in front of it. -Axel Munthe

“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

--Trina Paulus

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace
-Robert J. Sawyer

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s brow.
Charles Brower

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Ralph Waldo