“There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.” ~ Richard K. Morgan
Category: Quote of the Month
Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. ~Terri Guillemets
Feb 28
January 2024 – Quote of the Month
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Nov 27
October 2023 – Quote of the Month
“You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray before it finally decided to snow.” ~ Katherine Arden, Small Spaces
Oct 24
September 2023 – Quote of the Month
“The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping.” ~ Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (Autobiography)
Sep 19
August 2023 – Quote of the Month
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, (Aragorn), The Return of the King
Aug 22
July 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Americans used to be ‘citizens.’ Now we are ‘consumers.” ~Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life
Jul 09
June 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
May 15
May 2023 – Quote of the Month
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” ~ Minnie Aumonier
Apr 27
April 2023 – Quote of the Month
“If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.” ~Warren Buffet
Apr 26
March 2023 – Quote of the Month
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Mar 26
February 2023 – Quote of the Month
“That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Feb 26
January 2023 – Quote of the Month
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~Marcus Aurelius
Jan 30
December 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dec 26
November 2022 – Quote of the Month
“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it’s because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they’re responsible …
Nov 19
October 2022 – Quote of the Month
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” ~Robert Brault
Oct 20
September 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Sep 27
August 2022 – Quote of the Month
“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.” ~Walt Disney
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