It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

Joseph Campbell

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes

George MacDonald

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety: other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare, Antony and

Mom worked with autistic children.

Isabel Lucas

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Proverb

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

Princess of Wales Diana

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: Learn what dwells in man. And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.

Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer