Amanda Cross

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

Truth over Harmony.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.