Favorite Quotes - to be updated as needed.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it…

         

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890

          Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry,   their   passions a quotation. -Oscar Wilde

“When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly." Patrick Overton - Author, poet, teacher

 “The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” -Marcel Proust

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

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”  -Albert Einstein  (I absolutely love, love, LOVE this one!) 

“Don't be afraid to be amazing.” -Andy Offutt Irwin

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”-Jawaharlal Nehru

“Our doubts are traitors And makes us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.”
  -William Shakespeare

"Give 'em an inch and they'll take a foot - and then you won't have a leg to stand on"  -Blackadder