tattoos of quotes on ribs

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~Rachel Carson



That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean that. It's not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it's not all like that. A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad. That makes it all bad.... Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another. But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help. When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it. ~From the movie Old Yeller



Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914



The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton



True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry



Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen



A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. ~Matthew 26:41



Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch



Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919



Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown



A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith



There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. ~Ben Hecht



Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. ~Erich Fromm



As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ~Zachary Scott



Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy



I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it? ~Author Unknown



Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, "Teaching and Expanding Knowledge," Science, 4 December 1964