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)
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
