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Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~Author Unknown



Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska, 1919



To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target. ~Patrick Toche



The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away - it's just like a really long, bad cold. ~Dawn Ruelas



Skipping is oxygen for the soul. ~Jessi Lane Adams



It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. ~Christopher Morley



In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~John Milton



Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. ~Author Unknown Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. ~Edmund Burke



My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~Destiny Vaestus



Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein



The bicycle will accomplish more for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~Author Unknown, from Demerarest's Family Magazine, 1895



Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin, Diary, 1969



When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ~Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics"



A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde



Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? ~Lane Olinghouse



I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ~Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm, Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists, 1972