Otto > Otto's Quotes

“You ever wish that fireworks were incredibly quiet
and also didn't disappear so quickly
and also you could keep them in your home
and also you could hold them in your hands?
Because if so,
I'd love to introduce you to,
flowers.”
― Jonny Sun

“For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are. We may hunger to map out a new course, but for most of us, the lines have been drawn since we were 5.”
― Mary McCormack

“I am I because my little dog knows me. That does not prove anything about [me] it only proves something about the dog.”
― Gertrude Stein

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
― Hans Christian Anderson, The Complete Fairy Tales

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death”
― Lin Yutang

“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
― Lin Yutang

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg