Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

 



Kate DiCamillo

 

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

 
Erica Jong

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

 

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People  

 

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable

Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Booth Luce (born March 10, 1903) had a wildly varied and successful life—as a child she understudied Mary Pickford, later she was an editor at Vanity Fair, wrote a hit play, The Women, was a noted war correspondent, served two terms in Congress, and was ambassador to Brazil. She was also a participant in some of the first LSD experiments.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (born March 11, 1952) first came up with the idea for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when he was traveling around Europe—inspiration struck when he was lying in a field in Austria, drunk. So long, and thanks for all the fish!



 

 

Robert Frost > Quotes

Robert Frost quotes (showing 1-30 of 258)

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

  

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
― Robert Frost

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
― Robert Frost

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
― Robert Frost

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
― Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Robert Frost

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
― Robert Frost

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
― Robert Frost

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― Robert Frost

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
― Robert Frost

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne: Essays

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
― Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!”
― Michel de Montaigne

“My art and profession is to live.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne: Essays

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays 

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne 

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays  

“I quote others only to better express myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays 

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais 

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays 

“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne 

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
”
― Michel de Montaigne 

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
― Michel de Montaigne 

    

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

 

About this quote:

Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) pioneered the personal essay. He had a lot to draw on. His father was fond of childrearing experiments—young Michel lived in isolation with a peasant family until age 3, and then was brought back home but surrounded with Latin-speaking servants.

 

You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Tom Wolfe

About this quote:

Happy 83rd birthday, Tom Wolfe! Though he is known for his dapper white suit and his association with New Journalism, the author also has an athletic side—in his college years Wolfe was a pitcher who earned a tryout with the New York Giants.