The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley

Nothing's for certain, It could always go wrong, Come in when it's raining, Go on out when it's gone, We could have us a high time, Living the good life, Well I know

Robert Hunter

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Brian Eno

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Ann Brashares

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

William Butler Yeats

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

American Indian Proverb, Minquas

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Madeline Miller