“There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: “Dad! You’re Paul McCartney, aren’t you?” “Yes darling, but I’m Daddy really.” — Paul McCartney (Recalling raising his children in the 1970’s) (via fuckyeahbeatles)
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” — E.E. Cummings (via walkingincircles)
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin (via sarisafari)
(Source: sirmitchell, via ofthehousebaratheon)
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” — Oscar Wilde
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” — James Bryant Conant
“The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what’s truly important.” — Barack Obama, commencement speech at Arizona State University (2009)
“We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” — Anton Chekhov
“We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.” — Carl Jung
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.” — Pearl Bailey