short quotes to live by tattoos

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye



America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. ~Gloria Steinem



Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)



Coffee makes it possible to get out of bed. Chocolate makes it worthwhile. ~Author Unknown



I am fond of children - except boys. ~Lewis Carroll



There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him? ~Martin H. Fischer



Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939



An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. ~Andy Warhol



Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. ~William Hazlitt, Sketches and Essays, 1839



Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm



God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb



What's in a name? That which we call a rose



No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ~Bruce Catton, Prefaces to History



Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ~Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960



A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care. ~Pat Parelli



Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner