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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 26bb405 | Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand. | James Richardson | ||
| d6d2ec2 | He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might. | James Richardson | ||
| 696dfd9 | The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want. | James Richardson | ||
| 5bd7894 | First he gathered what he needed. Then he needed to keep gathering what he used to need. | James Richardson | ||
| 065407f | It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules. | James Richardson | ||
| 7b76742 | The new gets old much faster than the old gets older. | James Richardson | ||
| 41195ba | The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be. | James Richardson | ||
| b43ca7a | Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. | James Richardson | ||
| 29be266 | I lied. And my embarrassment was so great that I changed everything else to make the lie true. | James Richardson | ||
| add4b67 | Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks. | James Richardson | ||
| f3bf19b | I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions. | James Richardson | ||
| 7247c4c | The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't. | James Richardson | ||
| bdfd11a | Anger has been ready to be angry. | James Richardson | ||
| 7a55ce7 | Bitterness is a greater failure than failure. | James Richardson | ||
| 90b07e7 | Patience is decisive indecision. | James Richardson | ||
| 8bf1ca0 | I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery. | James Richardson | ||
| d3b9e97 | Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink. | James Richardson | ||
| b60eeed | Birds of prey don't sing. | James Richardson | ||
| a4327f8 | I've spent so long trying to fly that it's too late to set out on foot. | James Richardson | ||
| 7ec2546 | Path: where nothing grows. | James Richardson | ||
| 4f91306 | How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed. | James Richardson | ||
| 1e17fb1 | Happiness is the readiness to be happy. | James Richardson | ||
| 159c20f | He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself. | James Richardson | ||
| adea858 | There is no road to the land without roads. | James Richardson | ||
| d2bf7be | That others know: science. That others choose: politics. | James Richardson | ||
| 2d31a27 | Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying. | James Richardson | ||
| 2cd91e4 | I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true. | James Richardson | ||
| 827bc46 | Earth's noblest thing, -- a woman perfected. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 0ea5cf9 | Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 899863c | All thoughts that mould the age beginDeep down within the primitive soul. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| ea7a7e8 | The thing we long for, that we areFor one transcendent moment. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| ba1af47 | The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 32fdc4e | One day with life and heartIs more than time enough to find a world. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 0a5f482 | Not failure, but low aim, is crime. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 78355cf | Though old the thought and oft expressed,'Tis his at last who says it best. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| b022128 | The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| dd36e23 | Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 29c7cf5 | The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snowNot whiter than the thoughts that housed below. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 90f28ca | Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 2a28cd9 | To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| a1f7a8d | Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, -- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| f8b0edf | There is no price set on the lavish summer,And June may be had by the poorest comer. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 991ae6d | A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. | James Russell Lowell | ||
| 157274c | For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis oddHe leaves never a doorway to get in a god. | James Russell Lowell |