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- Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.
- Salma Hayek
- People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek
- Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
- Salma Hayek
- Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
- Salma Hayek
- No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Devotions XVII
- No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 02-15-06
- I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
- Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
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