"Slutty Halloween encourages laziness. A basque and a bowtie do not a costume maketh. Buying a pre-prepared 'raunchy traffic warden' outfit off the internet is a cop out. I like to see a fancy dress that blood, sweat and a few dedicated charity shop dashes have gone into, ta. If you've not cut up a bedsheet and permanently stained a few towels, you've frankly not tried hard enough."
- Lauren Bravo, "Slutty Halloween" (via)

"And no you don't wanna mess with us
Got Jesus on my necklace"
- Ke$ha, "We R Who We R"

"Happiness...it lies in the joy of achievement, the thrill of creative effort."
- Van Gogh

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart."
- James A. Garfield

"There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles."
- Anne Bancroft

"The hole and the patch should be commensurate."
- Thomas Jefferson

"In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself."
- Oprah Winfrey

"I'm really concerned about these nudist runners outside city hall..."
- Name witheld, amusing 10-minute voicemail at work

"And suppose that you lived
In that forest in France
Where the average young person
Just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous
Pants eating plants!"
- Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and The Great Pumpkin."
- Linus, Peanuts

“Faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.”
- Book of Mormon, Ether 12:6

"Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality."
- Avery D. Miller

“Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”
- William MacNeile Dixon

"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.  Why not write about it truthfully?"
- Virginia Woolf

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
- Lao Tzu

"Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile."
- William Cullen Bryant

"When it's cold and wet outside, suddenly, the inside of my house is much, much cozier.  There's a reason to stay inside.  There's a reason to go to the basement and watch a movie, or read a book by a fire in the living room.  When thinking of wet, cold, or snowy weather, my instant physical sensation is: relief."
- Julia Sweeney (via)

"At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done."
- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
- Iris Murdoch

"This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change."
- Meryl Streep 

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
- Dorothy Day, Loaves and Fishes

"Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord."
- Jeremiah, 17:7

"As good as I am, I’m nothing without my band."
- Steven Tyler

“My reasons for giving have to do with a personal commitment to the notion of community, to my belief in supporting worthy causes, and to my philosophy of service. Though my salary has never been substantial, I recognize that I have been extraordinarily lucky. Much of that luck has little or nothing to do with me personally – my parents made sure I got a good education, and I was fortunate to be born with basic intelligence and a fair bit of ambition. There have been obstacles, of course, but overall I feel I am indebted to society which has been so good to me. Not everyone has had the advantages that I have had, and if I can share some of mine with my community, it is a small step towards a better world.”
- 2011 Cygnus Donor Survey respondent

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
- Pablo Picasso

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."  
- Seamus Heaney

"I love bread. Mainly because, it serves as an excellent vehicle for eating other things while still appearing socially acceptable. Like butter, cheese, sugar (cinnamon toast, duh), syrup, jam, peanut butter, and Nutella."
- Ramsay

"Don't really know how I got here
I got some pictures on my phone"
- OneRepublic, "Good Life"

"For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace, the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."
- Isaiah 55:12

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
- Erich Fromm

"Babies are such a nice way to start people."
- Don Herold