Now we wake up with our memoryand fix our gazes on that which was;whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,sits silently beside us with loosened hair

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Thomas Jefferson

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Winona Ryder

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

C.S. Lewis

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

C.S. Lewis

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

Lev Grossman

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

Thomas Jefferson

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Gustave Flaubert

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

Sidney A. Weltmer

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

Steve Backley

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Amy Carmichael