The majority of my journal has now become friends-only.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
     - Sir John Lubbock

"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
- Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
     - Ernest Hemingway, 1899 - 1961

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
     - A. Whitney Griswold

I want the concentration & the romance, & the words all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
     - Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
     - Pearl S. Buck, 1892 - 1973

Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
     - Virgil, 70 - 19 BC

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
-- George Carlin

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
     - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948