The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

If all you can do is a bad thing, well at least do it with your style!

Toba Beta

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Robert Collier

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

Mike Myers

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Brian Hays

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Susanne K. Langer, Mind, An Essa

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Marlon Brando

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Gita Bellin

To believe in luck - is skepticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

Hassan Nasrallah

Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

Right now, I had everything I could ask for. It wasn't a long list, but it was a very satisfying one, starting with the love of my life back in my arms.

Becca Fitzpatrick