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“I am just too much.”
― Bette Davis

“Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.”
― Marlo Thomas

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
― Lucille Ball

“you dont know what you got till its gone”
― Joni Mitchell

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

“I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...”
― Joni Mitchell

“Won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses”
― Joni Mitchell, Chelsea Morning

“Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.”
― Joni Mitchell

“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops”
― Joseph Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Ideas come from everything”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“If I won't be myself, who will?”
― Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Failure is Impossible”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt