"Pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Monthly Archives: January 2017
'Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.' Cesar Chavez
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan
"There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. " Alan Rickman
"...Make jewellery for the inside of people’s minds.” Tom Waits
"Death is the beginning of something."
Edith Piaf
"Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success."
Vanessa Redgrave
“Still there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have travelled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
"The world is shaped by two things - stories told and the memories they leave behind." Vera Nazarian