Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1)

When one is a stranger to oneself then
one is estranged from others too.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing
in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach --- waiting for a gift from the sea.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anatole France (1)

"A person is never happy except at
the price of some ignorance."
- Anatole France

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible;
there is no way of taking advantage of them."
- Anatole France

"It is human nature to think wisely
and act in an absurd fashion."
- Anatole France

The average man, who does not know what to do with
his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation
from one kind of labor by taking up another."
- Anatole France

W. C. Fields (1)

"Last week, I went to Philadelphia,
but it was closed."
- W. C. Fields

"I cook with wine, sometimes
I even add it to the food."
- W. C. Fields

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't
even have the decency to thank her."
- W. C. Fields

"I never drink water because of the
disgusting things that fish do in it."
- W. C. Fields

"I've never struck a woman in my
life, not even my own mother."
- W. C. Fields

Aldous Huxley (2)

Happiness is not achieved by the
conscious pursuit of happiness;
it is generally the by-product
of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's
an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things
mixed up with the essential truth.
- Aldous Huxley

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring
from human stupidity, human malice and those
great motivators and justifiers of malice and
stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing
zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley

"Maybe this world is
another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be
certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1)

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and
ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist
because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I
have found that the only thing one
can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley

The author of the Iliad is either
Homer or, if not Homer, somebody
else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who
has discoveredsomething more
interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley