Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.-Robert Frost

Fear is a sign—usually a sign that I’m doing something right.- Erica Jong

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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. - Charles Dickens

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive.
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good,
and we must hunger for them. – George Eliot

Here, the leaves are falling
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-- Walt Disney

Light your fire
And never fear,
Life was made
For love and cheer.

Here and there we meet with one who possesses that fairy-like power of enchanting all about her; sometimes she is ignorant herself of this magical influence, which is, however, for that reason, only the more perfect. Her presence lights up the home; her approach is like a cheerful warmth; she passes by, and we are content; she stays awhile, and we are happy. - Victor Hugo.


What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of
its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of
attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the
overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert
Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and
woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold
and hungry and weary. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author
(1817-1862)

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen,
journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have
not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches,
no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no
magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and
wonderfully diversified human race. -Jacques Barzun, professor and writer
(1907- )

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Abraham
Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)

War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the
expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction
that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's
being worse off. -Karl Kraus, writer (1874-1936)

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of
foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. -Alice Walker,
writer (1944- )

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it
turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott, writer
(1954- )

It is not true that donkeys are stubborn. Tthey are just careful about what they do.