May 1st
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
May 2nd
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
— Kurt Vonnegut, HOCUS POCUS
May 3rd
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
— Bill Vaughn
May 4th
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all— night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
— John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy"
May 5th
I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening…like a light in the midst of darkness…
— Vincent Van Gogh (submitted by CBrunson)
May 6th
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
— Chuck Klosterman, SEX, DRUGS, AND COCOA PUFFS
May 7th
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
— Evelyn Underhill
May 8th
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
May 9th
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
— Thomas Carlyle
May 10th
I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.
— Cicely Tyson
May 11th
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too ––– even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
— Morrie Schwartz, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom
May 12th
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
— Anzia Yezierska
May 13th
My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."
— Jill E. Barad
May 14th
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
— Tammy Faye Bakker
May 15th
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
— Phylicia Rashad
May 16th
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
May 17th
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”
May 18th
Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
— Jim Butcher, WHITE NIGHT
May 19th
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
— Peter De Vries
May 20th
Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.
— John Morley
May 21st
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
— Henry Van Dyke
May 22nd
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
— George Gordon, Lord Byron
May 23rd
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
— Norman Vincent Peale
May 24th
History never repeats itself, as most people fear. People usually repeat history.
— Divine Chikobvu, STEP ON THE CLOUD
May 25th
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
— Roger W. Babson
May 26th
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
— Albert Einstein
May 27th
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
— Alan Alda
May 28th
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
— George Chapman
May 29th
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
— William Allen White
May 30th
You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
— George Bernard Shaw
May 31st
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
— Mark Twain
