Today is the birthday of the following people:
Abigail Adams (1744 –
1818):
“If particular care
and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a
rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no
voice or representation.”
and
“Learning is not attained
by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
and
“I've always felt
that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting
points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”
George Eliot (1819 –
1880):
“It is never too late
to be what you might have been.”
and
“I like not only to
be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of
the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This
is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you
are very dear.”
and
“A friend is one to
whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together,
knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping,
and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
and
“It is always fatal
to have music or poetry interrupted.”
André Gide (1869 –
1951):
“Everything's already
been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
and
“Do not do what
someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone
else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but
what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or
patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
and
“Envying another
man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had
it.”
Karen O (1978 - ):
“Wait, they don’t
love you like I love you.”
Jenny Owen Youngs
(1981 - ):
“Love is so
embarrassing
I'm this awkward and
uncomfortable thing
I'm running out of
places to hide it”
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