The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... ~Carl Jung
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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ~Moritz Guedemann
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~Samuel Butler
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window. ~Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Pictures must not be too picturesque. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out. ~Ira Haron
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. ~Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie, I'd Kill for a Cookie
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. ~Oscar Wilde
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. ~George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. ~Bill Veeck
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends. ~Allan Frome
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson
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