03/31/11

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

03/30/11

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. -Naomi Shihab Nye

03/29/11

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst. -Oscar Wilde

03/28/11

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. -Rabindranath Tagore

03/25/11

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. -Lois McMaster Bujold

03/24/11

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. -Maya Angelou

03/23/11

Let the beauty we love be what we do. -Jalaluddin Rumi

03/22/11

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. -Henry Miller

03/21/11

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -Joseph Campbell

03/18/11

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber