The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

Jacqueline Carey

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Source Unknown

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Mary Wesley

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Maxwell Maltz

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

Anne Bronte

When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.

Swedish Proverb

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Paul Hawken

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

Earl Blumenauer

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Joyce Brothers, On KNBR radio st

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

Kedar Joshi

I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.

Toba Beta