top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
Standard
Customized
More
"Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'd given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out 'tree hunting. That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word 'trespassing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."
Man
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
Happiness
"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."
Friendship
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."
Change
"He makes no friends who never made a foe."
Friendship
"In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man."
Man
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
Nostalgia
"Love is the only gold."
Love
"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."
Home
"The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts."
God
bottom of page