"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."

Hilton, Alice Mary | self-esteem | 3 bookmarks

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer | Genius | 30 bookmarks

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others."

Bierce, Ambrose | Calamity | 2 bookmarks

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."

Hemingway, Ernest | Innocence | 2 bookmarks

"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around caf?s."

Hemingway, Ernest | Exile | 2 bookmarks

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. | Hope | 22 bookmarks

"I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t."

Unknown, Source | Romance and Romanticism | 6 bookmarks

"France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."

Gaulle, Charles De | Battles | 2 bookmarks

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De | Love | 6 bookmarks

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent | Life and Living | 4 bookmarks