Richard Wilbur

With work as busy as it is right now, I'm spending most of the time at the office or decompressing alone at home.  Makes for a kinda lonely existence...

"What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you."

-Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

Zelda Fitzgerald

Being uninteresting is simply not an option...

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."

-Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

Lloyd Alexander

Just one more reason to be a dreamer...

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality.  It's a way of understanding it."

-Lloyd Alexander

Elinor Glyn

The giddy haze is the best part of falling in love or even in like - I'm not feeling it right now but hope to feel it soon.

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."

-Elinor Glyn

Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks)

All good things are worth the effort.  It's always better to have the satisfaction of overcoming something.

"It's supposed to be hard.  If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.  The hard is what makes it great."

-Jimmy Dugan (played by Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own

Oscar Wilde

Any New Yorker will testify this is true:

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

~Oscar Wilde

Anne Sexton

I'm not one to wear my heart on my sleeve, but I like this...

"As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed.  Even a small cough.  Even a small love."

-Anne Sexton

Adrienne Maloof

I never thought I would be quoting a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, but here goes...

"Every girl should keep her heels, head, and standards high.  Girls deserve the best and nothing less."

-Adrienne Maloof

Proust

Sometimes it just takes a little shift in perspective...

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

-Proust

Sara Teasdale

"Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings
and children's faces looking up,
holding wonder like a cup."

-Sara Teasdale

Cyrano de Bergerac

Because you always need to cross your "t"s and dot your "i"s...

"A kiss is a rosy dot over the "i" of loving."

-Cyrano de Bergerac

Carrie Fisher

We need to laugh through life...

"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable."

-Carrie Fisher

Carlos Santana

Live in the now:

"Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment.  They live in eternity.  They don't know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers.  They don't know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

-Carlos Santana

Jorge Luis Borges

A girl can dream...

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

-Jorge Luis Borges

Cyrus H K. Curtis

Tow the line between being a follower and a leader...

"There are two kinds of men who don’t amount to much: those who can’t do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."

-Cyrus H K. Curtis

Joyce Carol Oates

I really do think it's all meant to be...

"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck"

-Joyce Carol Oates

Nikki Giovanni

Apparently this woman and I share a birthday.  I also think I share her thoughts on love:

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

-Nikki Giovanni

Bruce Barton

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

-Bruce Barton

Billy Joel

I hope this is true...

"In every heart there is a room / a sanctuary safe and strong / to heal the wounds from lovers past / until a new one comes along"

-"And So It Goes", Billy Joel

William Blake

"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist."

-William Blake