"Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye."
~Helen Keller

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven~ Jimi Hendrix

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekov

"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember other may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."- Richard Nixon

"What does not destroy me makes me stronger." ~Friedrich Nietzche

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do. -- Dark Garden, StoryPeople

"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it."
--Dorothy L. Sayers

"Oh, never mind the fashion. when one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."
--Margaret Oliphant

"People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to
do a difficult thing."
--John Porter

"Oh sure, they say they're busy. They say that they didn't have even a moment in their insanely busy day to pick up the phone. It was just that crazy. Bullshit. With the advent of cell phones and speed dialing it is almost impossible not to call you. Sometimes I call people from my pants pocket when I don't even mean to. We may try to make you think differently, but we men are just like you. We like taking a break from out generally mundane day to talk to someone we like. It makes us happy. And we like to be happy. Just like you. If I were into you, you would be the bright spot in my horribly busy day. Which would be a day that I would never be too busy to call you. - "He's Just Not That Into You" Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

"'Busy' is another word for 'asshole'." - "He's Just Not That Into You" Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

"Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbeliefs. Snifs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling." - Pam Brown

"She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, you defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child." -Barbara Alpert ~ sisters

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. -Dan Rather

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -MC Escher

After a while, 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 plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plan your own 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 that you really do have worth.

-Veronica A. Shoffehall

"Remember when American moms used to tell their kids to finish dinner because children were starving in Africa ? Well, thanks a lot, Mom — Africans are still starving and American kids are obese." — Larry Baum.

"Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome."
- Marion Parker

"The test of success is not what you do when your on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

"If the sky were to suddenly open up... there would be no law... there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made and the people you've touched. The life that has been carved out from your subconcious is the only evidence by which you will be judged... by which you must judge yourself."

-Dr Thurman (in Donnie Darko)