mallymae’s most recent Quotables

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.

"Sometimes people take the great things you are doing as a personal attack on their own life. Do not let their insecurities dishearten you."

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Every natural action is graceful. Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends..

If you want to be happy, be.

I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

Be honest in your opinion. Be gracious in your manner. Be humble in your tone. Be thankful for what you’re given.

The glow of one warm thought is worth more to me than money.

If you want to feel rich just count the things that money can't buy.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or the admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Love is sweet, when it's new. But it's sweeter, when it's true. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you.