Short & Sweet Treats discussion

Please post some of your favorite quotes. It can be from a book (share which one) or not. Maybe it's something inspirational or maybe it simply describes how you feel at this moment.

From Solaris
"But what am I going to see?" "I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."
Location 173

one the quotes from fountainhead:

"How do you always manage to decide?" - peter keating
"How can you let others decide for you?" - howard roark

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. Robert Yates

"Everybody has had one, and one is enough for everybody." Willy Wonka

pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. Elizabeth Taylor

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,[..]" Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)

that's a good one Tessa :)

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys, they were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-air"

When Oscar Wilde asked Sarah Bernhardt whether she minded if he smoked, she replied ‘Oscar, I don't mind if you burn.’

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel

A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

"The world was filled with such wonders, and it was a sad state of affairs when a man spent his time worrying about the wrong things." ~Paul Auster, Timbuktu

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
~Joseph Campbell

Jen ƸӜƷ wrote: "“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
~Joseph Campbell"

Julia wrote: ""The world was filled with such wonders, and it was a sad state of affairs when a man spent his time worrying about the wrong things." ~Paul Auster, Timbuktu"


Both of these are so true. Nice quotes, ladies! :)

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Attributed to Groucho Marx

Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights.
~Author Unknown

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

I love both of these Laura, thanks.

thank You for saying that, Julia!

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. ~Joe Ryan

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ~Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses

"Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy."- E.B. White

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep." -Vernon Howard

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

si true Jen :)

so*

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus

Love Erasmus :)

Me, too, Jen :-) Here's another from him:

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”

‘Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.’ – Albert Camus, born 100 years ago today, Nov 7 1913

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~George Robert Gissing

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, h

"To be yourself when the world is trying its best night and day to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle any human being will fight."
e.e. cummings

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley

LaLaLa Laura wrote: "Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley"

Nice!

thank you, Jen! :)

Today's Quote of the Day is great!

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.” Astrid Lindgren

that is true, Tessa! everything else will fall into place as long as they know they are loved :)