Hello, since this is my about me section I figured that I would just put some of my favorite quotes from different people, and some things that I wrote myself that I truely belive in. And I guess that might be the best way for anyone else to truely know anything about me.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Time has laid his hand
upon my heart gently,not smiting it
But as a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden it's vibrations.
-Henry longfellow.
Life is not precious, a thing to be cherished. The soul and the mind are the instruments God gives us for our use and half of us don’t begin to use them. We put Life and Health on two little pedestals and spend most of our time performing acts of devotion before them. Instead of using them as a carpenter his tools, as a helmsman the rudder, to hammer or steer our way to victory, we turn ourselves into Vestal Virgins with nothing on the face of the earth to do but to feed the feeble flames of our comfort. Life is no craven thing, lurking coward-like in a corner. It is big, broad, splendid in opportunity. It is to be used, not cherished. It is to be spent, not saved.- Alice MacDougall
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.-C.S. Lewis.
Like anything worth writing, it came inexplicably and without method. - Sranger than Fiction
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. - George Orwell
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle.
It is not the poets but the chess players, in fact, which eventually lose thier minds. -Chesterton
Stopping smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do. I've done it thousands of times myself- Mark Twain
