the amorphous androgynous

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ~Boris Pasternak



To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955



Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie



Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein



Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day! ~Donna Wilk Cardillo



The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ~E.W. Howe



To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less. ~Chu Hui Weng



You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey



Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal



I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ~Don Marquis I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent



We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. ~Elizabeth Janeway



You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown



It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern



I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. ~Peter Ustinov



The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ~Erich Fromm



A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries



You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb



They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius



We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims