Quotation Saturday

ON WRITING
 

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make."
~Truman Capote

"I always do the first line well, but I have trouble with the others."
~Moliere

"Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together."
~Buffon

HAPPINESS
 

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
~Alice Meynell
 

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
~Benjamin Franklin

LIFE
 

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
~Thomas Carlyle
 

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
~Sir Thomas Brown
 

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
~Jules Renard
 

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
~Anonymous
 

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
~Paul Valery
 

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson