Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. Bernard M. Baruch
Carpe diem' doesn't mean seize the day – it means something gentler and more sensible. 'Carpe diem' means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem". (...) What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things – so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant--pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it. That's not the kind of man that Horace was. Nicholson Baker
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. William W. Purkey
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. Vera Brittain
For the eclipse tonite... Let go of old wounds So the new ones don't hurt as much. Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. Donna Tartt
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful. Stephenie Meyer
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question. Rainer Maria Rilke
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. Rainer Maria Rilke
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
