Michelle | Barbara

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.
~Marya Mannes~

Michelle | Barbara

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~Merry Browne~

Michelle | Barbara

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
~John Betjeman~

Michelle | Barbara

Everything will be okay in the end.  If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
~Paolo Coelho~

Michelle | Barbara

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be
as by what we want to conceal.
~Russell Lynes~

Michelle | Barbara

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
~Ghandi~

Michelle | Barbara

Every little thing wants to be loved.
~Sue Monk Kidd~

Michelle | Barbara

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse~

Michelle | Barbara

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour.
I dropped it carelessly, Ah!  I didn’t know, I held opportunity.
~Hazel Lee~