If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
- John Churton Collins

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

- William Wordsworth



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson



in what lies our power to do, also lies our power not to do

- Aristotle



We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles



rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof



It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

- Gertrude Stein



Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.

- Emile Chartier



We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

- Penelope Lively



We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

- Fred Rogers



believe nothing that you hear, and only half of what you see



those who see present events as part of an unfolding narrative that relates past to present to future have an advantage over those who see events only as snapshots in time

- Derek Abell



No two persons ever read the same book.

- Edmund Wilson



Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

- Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire



How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

- Daphne du Maurier,



In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

- Robert Green Ingersoll



The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

- Ogden Nash

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