serendipity171’s most recent Quotables

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

The cricket hummed, with the temperature of the night air. I, in my chair, hummed along with it, finding a voice, low, in the tempo of the chill. Part of me wanted to listen forever, another part wanted to tell the world how glorious it was. Both actions cancelled out the other, and in that, the whole of the world is played.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity.

What you do is of little significance; but it is very important that you do it.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where - " said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.