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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind. E. L. Konigsburg
...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow. George MacDonald
Thomas Beecham quote: "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of..."
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands? and all you can do is scratch it. Thomas Beecham
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winston Churchill quote: "Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards?..."
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go. Winston Churchill
I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think. Kurt Vonnegut
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. Dallas Willard
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones. Jennifer Weiner
L. Frank Baum quote: "How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but..."
How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. L. Frank Baum
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace..."
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. Elizabeth Gilbert
A. J. Jacobs quote: "Which just goes to prove. Not everybody can be Herman..."
Which just goes to prove. Not everybody can be Herman Cappachino. Whatever that means. A. J. Jacobs
ERANNA TO SAPPHOO You wild adept at throwing! Like a spear by other things, I'd lainthere beside my next of kin. Your strainflung me far. To where's beyond my knowing. None can bring me back again. Sisters think upon me as they twine, and the house is full of warm relation. I alone am out of the design, and I tremble like a supplication; for the lovely goddess all creationbowers in legend lives this life of mine. SAPPHO TO ERANNAWith unrest I want to inundate you, want to brandish you, you... Rainer Maria Rilke
Paulo Coelho quote: "Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others."
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others. Paulo Coelho
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise. Joseph Goebbels
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich. John Steinbeck

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