Quotes


The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

• Stendhal


vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return

• George Eliot


There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may

• Charlotte Bronte


The task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women

• George Meredith


If you don’t go out in the woods
nothing will ever happen
and your life will never begin.

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes


Adam and Eve were not expelled
from the Garden of Eden.
They jumped the fenceo

• Jay Frankston


There are windows
that you can look through
either way
and be inside or out
by making a choice.

• Jay Frankston


Seven layers above the horizon
there are ships that sail
forever out of sight
never looking back
never seeing the foam in their wake
strings of pearls hanging from their mast¸

• Jay Frankston


You work too hard.
You drink too much
and the genie is still in the lamp.
There are ripe berries
on magic bushes
and a tree out there
you haven't climbed yet~

• Jay Frankston


Breathe! Breathe deeply!
Breathe as if it were your first breath!
Drink in the air
with the fullness of your being
and feel the thirst that it satisfies.i

• Jay Frankston



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