Middagsfrid Quotes

#1. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

William Morris

#3. Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Regina Brett

#4. If you destroy your identity, if you cut all ties and fake your death, then what's left? Something without labels, something with money
and freedom.

Scott Kelly

#5. She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#7. Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

Ilchi Lee

#8. I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Taizan Maezumi

#9. It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. Showing Respect Is not Slavery ... and Must Be Taught

Jim Stovall

#11. We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

Gina Barreca