If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
Clifford Odets
"Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be."
Anonymous
"I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend."
Betsy Cornwell
"Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea.' Mibbitwiss."
Kathy Cyr
Inspiration
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
Geoffrey Wood
Inspiration
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
Inspiration
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.
Author
"The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready."
Nancy E. Turner
Inspiration
Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds."
Thomas M. Kostigen
"Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble."