The more you dwell on the past, wishing it weren't gone, the more damage you do to the good in the present until you can find no happiness at all, either in the past you regret or in the present you make unsatisfying.

-Meredith Wiley, and old friend and neighbor from Virginia

"We enter the world alone, and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to ourselves to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise, we’re in it by ourselves. Strangers, cut off from each other, and we forget… just how connected we all are. So instead, we choose love, we choose life, and for a moment, we feel just a little bit less alone."

~Grey's Anatomy, Season 5, Episode 9

"The moccoli, or moccoletti, are candles which vary in size from the pascal taper to the rushlight, and which cause the actors on the great scene which terminates the Carnival two different sources of thought: 1st. How to preserve their moccoletti alight; 2nd. How to extenguish the moccoletti of others. The moccoletti is like life: man has but one means of transmitting it, and that one comes from God. But he has discovered a thousand means of taking it away, although the devis has somewhat aided him."

-The Count of Monte Cristo

"Without hope there's nothing really."

-unknown New Orleans resident and Hurricane Katrina survivor

Seize the day Jeff, for real. Go running naked in a hail storm, kiss a girl in the middle of the day, fly a kite...but do it for yourself, or you won't just fail my class, you'll fail life.

-from the show "Community"

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-Oscar Wilde

Meredith (narrating): We're all susceptible to it, the dread and anxiety of not knowing what's coming. It's pointless in the end, because all the worrying and the making of plans for things that could or could not happen, it only makes things worse. So walk your dog or take a nap. Just whatever you do, stop worrying. Because the only cure for paranoia is to be here, just as you are.

-from Grey's Anatomy, first aired 10/01/2009

"Je pense qu’une langue se développe et elle s’hybride sans considérer la politique officielle. La valeur des mots dépend sur son usage et non pas sur une idéologie. L’hybridisme est une force naturelle, le résultat d’un monde qui rétrécit. Le langage pure n’existe pas. Toutes les langues du monde sont le produit d’une pollinisation croisée." -Acadieman Diaries

Translation for those of you who do not speak French :)

"I think that a language develops and hybridizes without consideration for the official policy. The value of words depends on their usage and not on any ideology. Hybridization is a natural force, the result of a narrowing world. A pure language does not exist. All the languages of the world are the result of cross-pollination."

This quotation perfectly sums up the purpose for my studies...the source can be found here:

Acadieman Diaries

"We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune."

-Edmund Dantes, from The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Edited by David Coward, Published by Oxford University Press)

the birth of a well said word

I have long been a collector of quotes. I have notebooks full of my favorites and they litter my Facebook profile.

While reading The Count of Monte Cristo today, and dogearing pages in order that I could go back and add some meaningful words to my quote-book at a later date, I thought it might be a fun idea to create a blog in which to share some of my favorite words and invite others to share their's.

So, it is with this idea that "a well said word" is born. I hope to add quotations often and sometimes share some comments about them. I invite others to share their thoughts as well.