Thoughtful Thursday

"I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them."
- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"Character --- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life --- is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion

"Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
- Marcel Proust

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
- William Durant

"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."
- Christopher Morley

"Hope is a waking dream."
- Aristotle

"You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will betoo late."