"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

Hubbard, Elbert | Anticipation | 1 bookmarks

"Interdependency follows independence."

Covey, Stephen R. | Dependence | 1 bookmarks

"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."

Hardy, Thomas | Obscurity | 1 bookmarks

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Hardy, Thomas | Patience | 3 bookmarks

"Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."

Bierce, Ambrose | Patience | 7 bookmarks

"Patience is passion tamed."

Abbott, Lyman | Patience | 7 bookmarks

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones."

Steinbeck, John | Aid and Assistance | 2 bookmarks

"We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

Steinbeck, John | Story and Story-Telling | 1 bookmarks

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

Baudrillard, Jean | Love | 5 bookmarks

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody | Love | 14 bookmarks