When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder. Janet Fitch
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be. Janet Fitch
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit. Tim Ferriss
I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places. Tim Ferriss
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. Tim Ferriss
Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do. Tim Ferriss