Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

John O'Donohue

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adam Osborne

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.

Joseph Fort Newton

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.

Robert Crais

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your experience. All you have to do, and all you have ever had to do is accept this gift. Take it and let it in. Let yourself experience the present moment just as it is. It doesn't get any better than this. This is the simple truth the ego refuses to accept, and it will suffer as long as that is the case.

Gina Lake

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

George Eliot

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Jeanne Moreau

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Ernest Hemingway

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

Frank Crane, Essays