The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ~Henry Beston
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. ~Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, The Story of Mankind
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot
Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere? ~Erma Bombeck
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. ~Sathya Sai Baba
Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for. ~Author Unknown
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ~Stewart Alsop
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~Vincent Van Gogh
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese), May 7, 2009 on Twitter
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. ~Mortimer Collins
Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~George Bernard Shaw
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ~Frances Rodman
The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ~William Shakespeare
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities? ~Emma Goldman, Anarchism
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ~Paul Eldridge
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton
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