quotes for your crush

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. ~Sutton Elbert Griggs



Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ~Jean Cocteau



If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams. ~Jason Love



Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. ~Author Unknown



Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. ~Gene Hill



I am my own heaven and hell! ~J.C.F. von Schiller



If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988



The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ~Vincent Van Gogh



No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman



Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. ~Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey



Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit. ~Author Unknown



In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine



An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?" ~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek



Property is organized robbery. ~George Bernard Shaw



Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897



It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people, to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ~William Arthur Ward



When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensees, 1872