quote meme

GO HERE. Keep refreshing until you've collected five (or ten if you are ambitious) quotes that really resonate with you, then post them to your journal.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.
Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 09-27-07

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
Kurt Herbert Alder

The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000