Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world,
I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside 
them they've got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. 
Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
-Neil Gaiman
I want every room to feel like I'm traveling to a new place.
-Jeff Klein
The more hues there are, the more life there is.
-Rose Anne de Pampelonne
I need contrast - the old and the new, the rough and the soft.
The clash of it all is very sexy.
-Catherine MaLandrino
In the most successful spaces you don't see everything at once. 
The more time you spend in them, the more you discover.
They open up like flowers.
-Vincente Wolf
Kitchens should be designed around what's important - fun, food & life.
-Daniel Boulud
No matter how much space you have, people always want to be in the kitchen.
-Keith Johnson
I don't know if less is more or more is less.
-David Gill
Minimalist rooms can be so beautiful, but I can't live in one - I love objects too much.
-Bunny Williams

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

-Rosalia de Castro
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them, water them
with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom,
till you yourself burst into bloom.
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

As long as we are persistent...
we will continue to grow.
We cannot choose the day or time
when we will fully bloom.
It happens in its own time.
-Denis Waitley
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we're never, ever the same. 
-Flavia
"les petits riens de la vie "
-it means, the little nothings of life

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start,
When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
-Eliza Cook

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
-William Shakespeare,
Who so loves believes the impossible.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
-Mairead Corrigan
I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
-Mother Teresa
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
-Raymond Carver
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The
world would split open.
-Muriel Rukeyser
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a
month's study of books.
-Chinese proverb
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color.
-William Bolitho

Saturday, February 6, 2010

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
-Isaac Mizrahi
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
-Betty Bender
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
-Minna Antrim
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
-Thomas Merton
Old houses are alive.
All you have to do is pick up the threads and go with it.
-Pierre Passebon
Friendship is the great chain of human society.
-James Howell
Waste your money and you're only out of money but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
-Michael Leboeuf
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
-Edith Sitwell
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
-Karle Wilson Baker
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
-Hal Borland
A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.
-Hardy Amies
...his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
-James Joyce, from The Dead
Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that i existed: I was here.
I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love.
I was afraid. I was hopeful.
-Felix Gonzalez Torres
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, 
any one can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-Anonymous
Indeed there are times when the only way the path can be followed is on one's knees.
-Niel A. Maxwel
 

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