Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when
they feel the heat.

~ Caroline Schoeder

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
---M. Kathleen Casey

Actually, my goal is to have a sandwich named after me.

A day without sunshine is like night.

"No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid."

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to
inspire.

~ Duchess Prazlin

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame
and fortune.

~ Amelia Earhart

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
- Colette

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
- Anatole France

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions define us.
~Virginia Satir

Sticks and Stones may Break my Bones. But, Words Come Back to Haunt me.
-- Joyce C. Lock

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after."
~Emily Bronte

The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway."
- Anonymous

The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come.
Cozy Cole

"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking
off your shoes."
- Mickey Mouse

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one
moment to the next.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today--James Dean

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells
thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that
'individuality' is the key to success.
--Robert Orben

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
~ Emily Dickinson

we procrastinate because we know that good things come to those who wait! class of 2002

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has,
of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein

"Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and
each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one
day, for it and it alone is life."-- Sanskrit poem

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes
happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect
the best; and take what comes."

---Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.- Unknown

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long
at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.- Helen
Keller

Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me
from having fun.- Ani DiFranco

"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
---George Matthew Adams

"everything is always OK in the end. If it's not OK, then it's not the
end." unknown

"there should be sunshine after rain. there should be laughter after pain.
these things have always been the same. so why worry now?" greatful dead

"don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." unknown

"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come."
--Janet E. Stuart

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
-- Orson Welles

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:
'Whose?'
-- Don Marquis

Life is uncertain...eat dessert first! ..... Anon

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has
happened.
Arnold Bennett

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
- Colette

"The less we look with our eyes, the more we see with our hearts"
Lyndsey Albrecht

"Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know themselves, and
where they dream"
Roger Rosenblatt

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain,
there would be no rainbow.
~ Jerry Chin ~

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains"
~Anne Frank

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein

Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try.

3rd law of thermodynamics: things go worse under pressure.

I was delighted to be able to answer promptly. "I don't know", I said.
Mark Twain

I was delighted to be able to answer promptly. "I don't know", I said.
Mark Twain

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma Ghandi

Warning: dates on calendar are closer than they appear.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.

~~~JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

" Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, You can rise above doubt and judgement.......And you can see forever. "
-- Nancy Kerrigan

"Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreing language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch anyway. And then there are the ones like the commercials, always changes, ever-so-annoying and only seem to be there when you are bored. But every once and a while you meet someone who's like a really good movie of the week or that one tv show you hardly ever get to see anymore because you're so busy. My point is hold on to the friends you care about and since we don't have a remote control to mute someone or just change the channel, pick your friends carefully."

"After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for paths. After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure... That you really are strong, And you really do have worth."
-Veronica A. Shoffstall

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
– Ambrose Bierce

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself."
--Ethel Barrymore

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
--Denis Diderot

“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
-- Jesse Jackson

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be on a crowded velvet cushion.”
--Henry David Thoreau

“There are times when silence has the loudest voice.”
--Leroy Brownlow

“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. “
-- Ninon de L'Enclos

"Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it."
-- Unknown

“We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, afraid of “what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger”
-- Anonymous

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

“Asking a question is only embarrassing just for that moment. Not asking is embarrassing and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.”
-- Japanese Proverb

“The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.”
-- Leo Buscaglia

“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.”
-- Anne Tyler

“Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.”
-- Susanne K. Langer

“How can you say luck and chance are the same? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterwards.”
-- Amy Tan

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Unknown

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

~ Anais Nin

I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just idiots.
I've learned. . . that we don't have to change friends if we understand that
friends change.I've learned. . . that no matter how good a friend is, they're
going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
- Unknown

"The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who
stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time where nothing was certain, all
life lay ahead, and every road led home." - The Wonder Years

"America lives in the heart of every
man everywhere who wishes to find
a region where he will be free to
work out his destiny as he chooses."
~Woodrow Wilson

Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow!
That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.
~ Alicia Silverstone ~

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being
happy over the good fortune of others.
~ Archibald Rutledge ~

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning
ain't distributed right."

---Mark Twain

"Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never
really say Goodbye
---Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know
they're always there."
-Anonymous

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no
coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is
cast by a Light. -- H.K. Barclay

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is very messy. Writing helps you order your experience and if
you're lucky you can find meaning. If you see life as a series of
stories, it makes living life lovelier.

~ Jane Hamilton

“No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.”
- Dante Alghieri (1265 – 1321), Italian poet: “Divina Commedia”, 1307.

"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
Eric Morecambe.

"Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff."
Steven Wright.

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' "
Charlie Brown.

"We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture."
Robin Williams.

"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."
W.C.Fields

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
George Carlin.

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
Rodney Dangerfield.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
- - - H. L. Mencken

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
- - - Carl Jung

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
--Maya Angelou

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
--Stella Adler

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
--Erica Jong

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own
mistakes and that times change.
- Gina Shapira

" true love is when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one"
- back of a tea box