As the Greek said, many men know how to
flatter; few know to praise.
-- Wendell Phillips

"Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. JUST DO IT."
-Nike ad

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why
I have one.
-- Cato the Elder

" Follow your dreams and follow your soul because if you don't,
You might just fall."
--- Copyright © 2001 Jimmy Paska

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self
may prove to be.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy.

You are only as old as you act.

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want."
-
10 Things I Hate About You

Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would
know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a
great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you
must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I
can clearly not choose the wine in front of me...
Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride, 1987

" I've always believed that life is like a circle.
No matter how bad the bad things are,
the good things will come back around and will last for a longer time."
--- Copyright © 1999 Lisa Shucker

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which
goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack
nervously.
-- Lance Morrow

" Sometimes seemingly insignificant people have very significant thoughts."
--- Coach Bill Brown

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
--author unknown

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for
being obnoxious? ~ Source Unknown ~

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

Speak of me as I am....one that loved not wisely but too well.

Shakespeare
"Much Ado About Nothing"

Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.

Publilius Syrus

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

"Friendship is like sitting on a swing in silence for hours,getting up
walking away and feeling like you have just had the best conversation ever"

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Practice makes perfect, but if nobody's perfect, why practice?

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

" Don't worry about what other people think because all that matters is your
happiness. Don't look for comebacks because your enemy will always have one
more waiting for you. Don't judge yourself by your face and especially what
others think. Judge yourself by the person you truly are. Think positive and
be happy. Don't try to be anything for anyone and don't try to reach a goal
for anyone but yourself. Be happy with who you are because the moment someone
sees you smile, what they really see is a good, confident, independent girl
and whether you believe it or not, that's what every girl would like to be."
--- Copyright © 2001 Brandi Simon

"True friends are the people who brighten your smile everytime your with them."
-- Unknown

The greatest pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot ~

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone.
Oscar Hammerstein

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
Stone Temple Pilots

"There are three stages in a person's life -- birth, their life and
death. They are not conscious of birth, submit to death, and forget to
live."
- Jean de La Bruyere

Be who you are, say what you think, people that matter don't care, and people that care don't matter
-dr. Seuss

We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon.
---Konrad Adenauer

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? -Amy Tan

"Don't worry so much about tomorrow that you forget to live today."

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
~ Author Unknown

You did what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did
better.
-- Maya Angelou

Many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt.
We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person
does not care at all.
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

What I point out to people is that it's silly to be afraid
that you're not going to get what you want if you ask.
Because you are already not getting what you want. They
always laugh about that because they realize it's so true.
Without asking you already have failed, you already have
nothing. What are you afraid of? You're afraid of getting
what you already have! It's ridiculous! Who cares if you
don't get it when you ask for it, because, before you ask
for it, you don't have it anyway. So there's really nothing
to be afraid of.
- Marcia Martin

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out
on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

"You need someone to love you while you're looking for someone to
love."
-Shelagh Dehaney

"We make an idol of our fear and call it God."
-"Ingar Bergman, The Seventh Seal

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
******Lewis Cass******

"Don't pray when it rains if you
don't pray when the sun shines."

~~ Satchell Paige ~~

If you really love something, set it free.
If it comes back to you, it was meant to be.
If it doesn't come back, let it soar,
Have faith, God has something more!

"if u are flawless then maybe you'll win my heart." alanis morrisette

In writing, spontaneous words are harder to come by, because their
very creation allows reflection.

~ Jill Hackett

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
~ Meister Eckhart

"Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared
of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our
hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to
scream. And we shout with the others, When we should keep our mouths shut.
Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be
afraid. JUST DO IT."
-- Nike ad

“Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.”
--Lin Yutang

Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere - that it costs something
to be what you are.
~ Shirley Abbott

"Your actions are shouting so loudly, that I can't
hear what you say!"

If they can't trust me with a choice, how can they trust me with a baby?
--bumper sticker

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)

there's more to life than meets the eye
look up to the sky
'cause it'll soon pass by...

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination,
and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
- Harry S. Trumann

The truth will set you free,
but first it will make you miserable.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and
honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
~ Marya Mannes (More in Anger)