Quotes Meme

[chomiji]

It's been a mildly woeful Wednesday, so let's have a meme. This one is ganked from kispexi2's ... you go to this here random quotes page, check out the quotes that come up, and keep refreshing until you've collected five quotes that really resonate with you, then post 'em to your journal.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

- Arnold Lobel

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.

- Gotama Buddha

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)

Hmmm ... what a strange batch that is!