"Fantasy is a flower that does not flourish on passivity."
— Elsa Schiaparelli
"You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you."
— Breakfast at Tiffany’s
"A goal is arguably just a random something that is sufficiently far away. A caprice. But somehow, if taken seriously, if treated as fate, a goal can make an odyssey out of what would otherwise just be the small hours of life. One sets out to fulfill the prophecy no prophet ever professed, and the drama of how to get there from here makes meaning out of what might otherwise be just meanderings."
— Rivka Galchen (“The Hunger,” Elle Magazine)
"Give everyone the look of love they crave."
— Pope Benedict XVI
"My weaknesses are many and grave, many and grave indeed, but more abundant is your medicine."
— Saint Augustine (“Confessions”)
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
— Shakespeare (“Measure for Measure”)
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.” -Anais Nin
(Source: her-roaring-twenties)
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
— Victor Hugo
"If pure going to say something, say it with conviction."
— Nicholas Kirkwood
