Purl Soho Quotes

#1. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Edvard Grieg

#2. She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.

Simon Van Booy

#3. I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

John Adams

#4. On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#5. So stop making it so hard, Cath. You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?

Rainbow Rowell

#6. I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

Rosemary Mahoney

#8. When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

Rokia Traore

#9. Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

Julia Marlowe

#11. To manage fear you only need to believe you can do things.
To manage danger you must be able to do things.

Rory Miller