Monday Boutique Quotes

#1. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.

Rumi

#2. I watched girls stroll by our table, glancing at Erik with half hidden interest before scurrying off. I wanted to shout at them to move along. We get it. He's good-looking.

R.S. Grey

#3. With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.

Harlan Coben

#4. The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

Dave Beard

#5. Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

Sol Stein

#6. Let us be elegant or die!
Amy

Louisa May Alcott

#7. If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

#8. What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

Aphex Twin

#10. Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.

Herbert Kalmus

#12. Deficit reduction is the demand of the financial institutions and the superrich, and in a rapidly declining democracy, that's what counts.

Noam Chomsky

#13. When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

Henry Miller