I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is: Try to please everybody. ~Herbert Bayard Swope
Quiddity Epiphanies
I think things. like most people do. Most of my sentences start with the words "I wonder.." or "I think.." I'm one of those people that looks at a tree and doesn't see a tree, but a painting, sketch, poetic inspiration, song, or setting for some romantic novel. I have creativity that isn't aimed at anything in particular, and is open to everything. I love books and old things. Whether you are like me or not, there's always a little fascination in something different and I like to think that's what I am.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
Le Corbusier
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever”
”I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid.
~John Gotti
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion (via misswallflower)
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Pride an Prejudice Jane Austen
“I love you. Because we’re alike. Bad lots both of us. Selfish and shrewd but able to look things in the eye and call them by their right name.” Rhett Butler
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
Virginia Woolf (via misswallflower)
Southern hospitality at its finest.
Maybe it’s not about the happy ending, maybe it’s about the story.
Beauty, is in the eye of the Beholder, be that Beholder beautiful or not.
