28 November 2009

Coffee

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw

"Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact."
Nicole Krauss
[The History of Love: A Novel]
(read this book 3 years ago)

"You are what you believe yourself to be."
Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo


"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde

"Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I’ve done. But I’m telling you honestly that it doesn’t surprise me. I knew I could do it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
Marilyn Monroe


"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
Leonardo da Vinci

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
Neil Gaiman

What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?"
Calvin and Hobbes

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke"
Brendan Francis

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein

"Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream."
Peter McWilliams

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan

"People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
Lemony Snicket

"The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing."
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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