There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. ~ John Lennon //0-0\\ #Quote
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. ~ Anon. #Quote
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. ~ Robert Bloch #Quote
Don't just read 📚 the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. ~ Jim Rohn #Quote
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. ~ Seneca the Elder #Quote
I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will. ~ Sylvia Plath #Quote
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ~ Yoko Ono #Quote
Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too. ~ Frank Zappa #lyrics
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, are only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean 🌅 of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #Quote
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. ~ Dale Carnegie #Quote
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ~ Gail Sheehy #Quote
The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive. ~ Jeanne LaMont #Quote
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~ Samuel Johnson #Quote
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love - "Farewell!" ~ Robert Pollok #Quote
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak, and observe more than you know. ~ Michaela Chung #Quote
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ~ W.C. Fields #Quote
Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground. ~ John Lennon //0-0\\ #Quote
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury #Quote
For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth 🌎 is blue, and there is nothing I can do. ~ David Bowie #Lyrics
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book 📖, and does. ~ Groucho Marx #Quote
The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life. ~ Bill Murray #Quote
It was just an any old kind of day; the kind that comes and slips away. ~ Harry Chapin #Quote
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. ~ Christopher Isherwood #Quote
All that dies, dies for a reason, to put it's strength into the seasons. ~ Yes #lyrics
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money 💰 writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ~ W. H. Auden #Quote
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep 🛌. ~ Salman Rushdie #Quote
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau #Quote
Sometimes you've got to fight when you’re a man. ~ Kenny Rogers #Lyrics
Eternity bores me; I never wanted it. ~ Sylvia Plath #Quote
The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets. ~ John Lennon //0-0\\ #Quote
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~ G. K. Chesterton #Quote
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time ⏳ to pause and reflect ~ Mark Twain #Quote
When you can feel your unborn children in her eyes 👁👁, you know you really love a woman. ~ Bryan Adams #lyrics
I only have one life, so I want to make sure it’s a good one. ~ Yoko Ono #Quote
We live and die and anything else is just delusion. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #Quote
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ~ George Santayana #Quote
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time ⏳. ~ Betty Smith #Quote
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~ T.S. Elliot #Quote
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us. ~ #Proverb
Learn young about hard work and manners — and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald #Quote
Laugh 🤣 and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth 🌎 must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox #Quote
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. ~ Honore de Balzac #Quote
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld #Quote
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. ~ William S. Boroughs #Quote
Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free. ~ Dan Fogelberg #lyrics
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ~ Bill Bryson #Quote
Few men have been admired of their familiars. ~ Michel de Montaigne #Quote
Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ~ Frederick Douglas #Quote
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~ Wendell Johnson #Quote
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance 💃🏽 in the rain ☔️. ~ Vivian Greene #Quote
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. ~ Eugene O'Neill #Quote
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. ~ Tommy Cooper #Quote
I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed. ~ Hugh Laurie #Quote
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