"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

--- Sheldon Kopp

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. -Tom Landry

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and Then leap in the dark to our success.
–Henry David Thoreau

I have I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks

Determine that the thing can and shall be done,
And then we shall find the way – Abraham Lincoln

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious
xxxxx--Murphy's Corollaries

Fifth Law of Applied Terror:
xxxxIf you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary:
xxxxIf you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
xxxxx--Snoopy

There is so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the best of us
that it ill behooves any of us
to talk about the rest of us
xxxxx--Unknown, via my grandfather

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier (poet; 1807-1892), Maud Muller

"Those who are a success have lived well,
laughed often and loved much ...
Who leave the world better than than found it ...
Who never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty ...
Who looked for the best in others
and gave the best they had."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg."
Chinese Proverb

"Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected oppurtunity." Arabian Proverb

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Sir Winston Churchill

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection
or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick Robertson

Nobody ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ~ C.S. Lewis

"Between grief and nothing I will take grief." ~ William Faulkner

No matter how far you have traveled in the wrong direction-- go back!

If work was good for you the rich would leave none for the poor.
Haitian proverb

"Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot." ~ Italian
Proverb

"The heart that loves is always young." ~ Greek Proverb

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

---Elbert Hubbard

Remember, you are the same today as you'll be in five years except
for two things: the people you meet and the books you read.
Choose both carefully.

-Charlie "Tremendous" Jones-

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives
me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy
new ones."

"Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose,
it'll fly."
-- Unknown

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? - Leo Buscaglia

The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law. - Mary Manin Morrissey

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have
to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again
before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." -Nelson Mandela
(1918- )

This is on me.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), suggested for her tombstone

It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind
- SIR WALTER SCOTT

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."


---Emo Philips, American comedian

It's so hard when contemplated in advance,
and so easy when you do it.
--- Robert M Pirsig ---

Knowledge is saying what you know. And wisdom is knowing you do not know everything.

"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you
all his joys." - Jewish proverb

"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how
he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the
loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, 'which wolf will
win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I
feed.'" --Unknown

"Each bird loves to hear himself sing." a.. Arapaho Proverb

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." Navajo
Proverb

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million
realities." -- Maya Angelou

"We belong someplace. The day we are given a name we are also given a
place which no one but us can fill." Maya Angelou

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can
survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even
alone in genders." Maya Angelou

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." Maya Angelou

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being
true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the
mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are
you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers
change." Richard Bach

"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever
questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a
lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel." Richard
Bach

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a
long time ago." Les Brown

"Don't say that you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo daVinci, Thomas Jefferson, and
Albert Einstein." Unknown

"At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a
period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time,
having a purpose, trending in a certain direction." Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963)

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." Dean
Acheson

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though,
awakens your own expectation." --Unknown

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their
children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate
their money on improving these schools until they met the highest
ideals." Susan B. Anthony

"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to
school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to
become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." Sandra
Cisneros

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were
taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."
Ambrose Bierce

"Lightning Tree
Look, look at my scars,
see how it has healed,
leaving a sign of what I have survived.
Your scars will heal in this way
leaving their reminder of past trauma.
Grow strong, deeply rooted,
you will be stronger for surviving.
Show your scars, do not hide them,
they are a part of you,
a sign for all time.
Shulamit 1988

"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time
loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give
another person that you aren't even giving to yourself." Barbara de
Angelis

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is
to be expected only from the strong." -- Leo Rosten

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." Robert
Burton

"So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left."

--Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go!

This is a poem Dr. Seuss wrote about death
I AM PREPARED…..
"When I cross the Bar of the Great Blue Be yonder
I know that my Maker, without pause or ponder,
Will welcome my soul. For my record is scar-less
I've eaten no oysters in months that are R-less."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get
better. It's not."
--Dr. Seuss The Lorax

"I learned there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some from behind."
-Dr. Seuss

How did it get so late so soon?
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
-Dr. Seuss

OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.
You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
-Dr. Seuss

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -- Plato

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging
seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you
want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns, as everyone of us sometimes
learns. And many a failure turns about when he might have won had he stuck
it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow. You may succeed with
another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out. The silver tint of the clouds of
doubt, and you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it
seems so far. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when
things seem worse that you must not quit.

How vain it is to sit down and write if you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

The only things in life you regret,
Are the risks that you didn't take.
~ Anonymous ~

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The
essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
- Coubertin, Pierre de

Not everybody trusts paintings
but people believe photographs.
-- Ansel Adams

"It is twice the pleasure to decieve the deciever."

"Sometimes the people you thought you knew, become the strangers you never wanted."

You have enemies? Good! It means you've stood up for something at least once in your life.
-- Unknown

Hope is the feeling that you will succeed tomorrow in what you failed at
today - unknown

You can cage the singer but not the song.
-- Harry Belafonte

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire

It is not a parent's job to protect their
kids from life, but to prepare them for it.
-— Blake Segal

"The worst part of censorship is [bleep]."
-Anonymous

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall
never have a beginning." J.H. Newman

"People try to rain on your parade, because they have no
parade of their own." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite." -– Robert Half

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." -–Gustave Flaubert

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."-– George Lucas

"Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do." -– Brian Tracy

Some people feel the rain...others just get wet -unknown-

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
-- Charles Buxton

Some people are making such thorough plans
for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
- William Feather

Millions long for immortality who do not
know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.
- Philippine proverb

Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Treat the earth well:
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
We borrow it from our children.
~~Native American Proverb, unknown author

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

---Phyllis Diller

"Teacher and God are standing before me,
Who shall I bow to, first?

I would bow to the teacher,
who showed me the way to God."

- Kabir Das, Indian mystical poet and saint.

"The bitterness of cheap quality is long remembered after the sweetness of low price is long forgotten"

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."
--James Matthew Barrie

Why? Why Not? Why Not You? Why Not Now? -- Aslan

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." -- Doug Ivester

"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter" -- Chekov

"The fear is worse than the pain." -- Shannon Bahr

Be beautiful if you can, Wise if you want to... But be respected--that is essential. -- Anna Gould

"There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no introduction." -- Shared by CherLisa Biles

"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once." -- Sir Walter Scott

"Everyone cannot be at the top but why should I remain at bottom"--------Unknown

"I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things " -
Ashleigh Brilliant

"Good Leaders are Scarce - So I'm following myself " - Ashleigh Brilliant

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still
a choice. -- Michelle Pfieffer

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life and you must accept regret. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

---James Bryant Conant

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

---Lilly Tomlin

"It is not that I'm smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer"
--Albert Einstein

"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights
and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there."
-Norman Vincent Peale

Close your eyes and let the mind expand.
Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course.
Allow the mind to merge with Mind.
Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness.
Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration,
Up to the very Circle of Eternity.
~Hermes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content
with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and
be sad." -Christina Rossetti

The fear of becoming a 'has-been'
keeps some people from becoming anything.
-- Eric Hoffer

Only passions, great passions,
can elevate the soul to great things.
-- Romans 12:11

Si hoc legere sa's nimium eriditionis habes (If you can read this, you're overeducated)

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost;
when character is lost, all is lost.
--Billy Graham

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. --Horace

(Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.)

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that
money can't buy.

Before you borrow money from a friend,
decide which you need more.
Gene Brown

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the
spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more
dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more
daisies.
Nadine Stair

"Feel the fear....and do it anyway " by Susan Jeffers

"Beauty isn't worth thinking about;what's important is your mind.You don't want a fifty dollar haircut on a fifty cent head."

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he
sings."
- Ed Gardner.

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."
Benjamin Mays

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you
will never grow."
~ Ralph

Do the kinds of things that come from your heart. When you do you won't be
dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for someone
else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes
back.
- Morrie Schwartz

"When you feel so angry and frustrated on life, think of the times when you felt
like giving up and yet you survived."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"
Unknown

Age is a matter of the mind - if you don't mind, it don't matter.
- Jo Haddock

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way,
that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear
beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to
change, taking the moment and making the best of it without
knowing what's going to happen next.
- Gilda Radner

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon dance in the street.
~~ W. H. Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening", 1940

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
~~Bernard Bailey

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover." -Mark Twain-

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to
hear the answer.
-- Ed Cunningham

My favorite animal is steak.
~~Fran Lebowitz

Never eat more than you can lift.
~~ Miss Piggy

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
~~ Alice Mae Brock

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
~~ Orson Wells

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
~~ P.J. O'Rourke

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
~~Totie Fields

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

It is not that I'm smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing
you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
-- Edgar Watson Howe

"A leader is best when people scarcely know he exists. Not so good when
they kindly obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who
talks little, when his work is done and his aim fulfilled, they will
say: 'We did this ourselves.' "
Lao-Tzu, 5th century B.C. - Tao-Te Ching

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz

"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after."

"And Alice picked up the little cake and on it read, 'Be yourself.' "How
funny," Alice thought, "what else could I be!"

Birds of a feather flock to a newly washed car.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things.
-- Robert Brault

"To live in the hearts
of those you leave behind
is never to die"
~Robert Orr~

Defination of Courage, Grace under pressure.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

"I would rather suffer from a hundred dissapointments then one regret."

When I hear somebody sigh and say, 'life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
~~ Sydney Harris

Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble - gumble song,
Whistle through your comb,
Do a looney - goony dance,
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.

Right or Left at Oak Street.
It is the choose I make everyday.
And I do not know which takes more courage.
The Staying or the Running Away.
Roy Clark

"A dreamer is one who finds his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that
he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde

"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a
sheep."
-- Arabian Proverb

"One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few."
-- Spanish Proverb

"If I try to be like him, who will be like me?"
-- Yiddish proverb

"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so."
Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Philosopher and Author

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
~ Maya Angelou

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have time.
~Tallulah Bankhead

Love your job but never fall in love with your company because you never know when company stops loving you

-Narayana Murthy- CEO Infosys Technologies.

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and
those who matter don't mind.
- Theodore Giesel (Dr. Suess)

A stupid man stays awake all night pondering his problems; he's all worn out
when morning comes, and whatever was, still is.
- Viking Proverb

Some of the best things in life will come to you when you are not looking for them.

-I. Nath

The most important thing in someone's personality is being real.

-Anonymous

Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.

-Will Rodgers

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in
everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission
is never to let it." --Felicity

"Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest."
--Fortune Cookie

"If you are not afraid to face the music, you may some day lead the
band."--Unknown author

"Sir, What is the secret of your success?" a reporter asked a bank president. "Two words" "And, Sir,what are they?" "Right decisions." "And how do you make right decisions?" "One word." "And,sir,What is that?" "Experience." "And how do you get Experience ?" "Two words" "And, Sir,what are they?" "Wrong decisions" --Author Unknown

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up
with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love -
true love
--Robert Fulghum

"Be able to swim with the sharks without being eaten
alive"

"We all want to go to heaven but nobody wants to die."

"You cannot become what you need to be by remaining what you are."
~~Unknown~~

"Every success story starts with a kid who hated to lose. "
Creighton Preparatory

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, that myth is more
potent that history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
that hope always triumphs over experience - that laughter is the only cure
for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death
-- From the movie The Crow

"Lying is done with words and also with silence"
~Adrienne Rich~

"We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door - the bell doesn't work.)"
- Sign on door of repair shop

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
- Alan Minter, Boxer

"How to store your baby walker: First, remove baby."
- Anonymous Manufacturer

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer

"I’d rather die like a man than live like a coward.” TUPAC

The more you know, the less you need to say -- Jim Rohn

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
- Anthony Robbins

"I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to
fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill
the thing on the inside." (Girl Interrupted)

Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say,
are you going to drink that?
--Lisa Claymen

" A good friend will bail you out of jail. But a best friend will be sitting
right next to you saying ' That was fucking awesome!'.

" The hardest thing about growing up is that you have to do what's best for
you even if it means breaking someones heart. Including your own."

" If you say you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud, or the
moment just passes you by. " ~ My Best Friends Wedding

In the dark it is easy to pretend that the truth is what it ought to be. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Phantom of the Opera

"life is a big movie, it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story and the dialogue is lame. but in the he said/she said sometimes there's some poetry if you turn your back long enough to let it happen naturally."
--ani difranco

"It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I
should be. And then there's me"
~Ani Difranco~

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you
become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and
wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso

Suicide is your way of telling God: you can't fire me. I quit -- Bill Maher

"When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side."
---Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967, Archbishop of New York City 1939-1967

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor.
(When love is not madness, it is not love.)
--Spanish

After the game, the king and pawn go back into the same box.
--Italian

After lunch, rest; after dinner, walk a mile.
--Arabian

"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." -- Annie Gottlier -

"A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye."
--Samuel Grafton

sometimes you gotta stop and remember, that you're not gonna live
forever. be young, think smart, stay true, and just follow your heart."
--the ataris

"Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream."

"Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing."
--Ally Mc Beal

The biggest mistake i did in the past beforedoing a certain work was that i waited for someone to tell me that you can do it. -Ramesh.N

"When the student is ready, the teacher appears." - Buddhist Proverb

You are the person who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it or toss it aside;
You are the person who makes up your mind.
Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar.
Or just be contented to stay where you are.
-- Edgar A. Guest

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

Every road has two directions.
--Russian

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
--Chinese

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
--Chinese

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
--Spanish

A snake deserves no pity.
--Yiddish

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
--Chinese

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
--Persian

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
--Irish Proverb

" The sooner you let go of a situation that isn't working, the sooner
one that WILL can COME IN!"
~ Bashar

" The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything."

There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate truffles.
--Anon.

"No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving."
---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

"Life is just like a Jeopardy! game; all the answers are there, all you have
to do is come up with the right questions to win."
- Anthony Robbins

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just
sit there."
~Will Rogers~

"Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long."
--Menander (342 - 292BC) Greek Dramatist

EVERYTHING THAT IS REALLY GREAT AND INSPIRING ARE CREATED BY THE
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ALLOWED TO LABOR IN FREEDOM ---- Albert E

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing happened."- Winston Churchill

We are told to let our light shine, and if
it does, we won't need to tell anybody it
does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to
call attention to their shining--they just shine.
~Dwight Lyman Moody

"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
--Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925) Us Encyclopedia Editor

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. -Patricia McKillip

"I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
---Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist, Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then the came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up. --attributed to Martin Niemoeller. No war, Democracy now.

In the beginning there was nothing. And the Lord said: 'Let there be light' and there was still nothing, but now you could see it. -- (erm... could someone help me and tell me which book it is from? I forgot...) Terri Prachatt

"Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending any time. You know where you are with an ending." -- One of the Kindly Ones

"You should have gone to the funeral."
"Why?"
"To say good-bye."
"I have not yet said good-bye to Eurydice."
"You should. You are mortal: it is the mortal way. You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live." -- Dream to Orpheus

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me "centipede trouble" -- you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The best thing you can give someone is a chance.
--Unknown

An original is always worth more than a copy.
--Unknown

" A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." ---St. Francis of Assisi

Don't be dismayed
at goodbyes.
A farewell is necessary
before you can meet again.
And meeting again,
after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those
who are friends. ~~Richard Bach~~

"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
--Maya Angelou

"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time"
--Anon.

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you
come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive."
- Harold Whitman

"Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me your
achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine."
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence
on the appreciation of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be
honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some
difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
- Sydney J. Harris, 1917-, American Journalist

"Life isn't a destination -- it's a journey.
We all come upon unexpected curves
And turning points, mountaintops and valleys.
Everything that happens to us
Shapes who we are becoming.
And in the adventure of each day,
We discover the best in ourselves."

"From a Hallmark Card".

"I have learned that success is
to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached in
life as by the obstacles which
he has overcome while trying
to succeed."
~~ Booker T. Washington ~~

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be
a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

"Why buy a cow, when milk is
cheap"--I think it's in Glory Road.

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms." ----Charles Caleb Colton

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If I won the lottery, I wouldn't be one of those people who immediately quit their jobs. I'd make my boss's life a living hell for a week or two first.

Arrggghhhh! My fortune cookie contradicted my horoscope!

This life is a test; it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Scattered showers my ass!
— Noah

Dysfunk... disfunct... dys... aw, fuck it!

Son, you don't have bad luck. Bad things happen to you because you're a dumbass.
— That 70's Show

You coveteth my ice cream bar, but you cannot have it. I have had this ice cream bar since I was a child.
— Ren, from Ren and Stimpy

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats--approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
— Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
— Ashleigh Brilliant

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
— Yogi Berra

"Animals are crapping in our houses and we're cleaning it up! Did we lose a war? Thats not America. Thats not even Mexico." -Homer Simpson

"Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow" -Homer Simpson

"Well, a question ain't really a question if you know the answer too." -John Prine

And before you abuse, criticize, and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes. --Joe South

I may never be happy, but for now I am content. --Sylvia Plath

Juventud, divino tesoro, ya te vas para no volver! Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro, y a veces lloro sin querer. --Ruben Dario
(Translation: Youth, divine treasure, you have gone and will not return! When I want to cry, I don't cry, and sometimes I cry without wanting. {I guess it's true when they say it loses something in the translation!})

Life is brief and fragile. Do that which makes you happy.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. --Jane Howard

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde, from "Lay Windermere's Fan

"When in doubt...communicate!" L. Ron Hubbard

You are the person who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it or toss it aside;
You are the person who makes up your mind.
Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar.
Or just be contented to stay where you are.
-- Edgar A. Guest

Be nice to people on the way up, because you never know when you might meet
them on the way down.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or
of races, but the happiness of the common man. - William Henry Beveridge

The fear of war is worse than war itself. - Seneca

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and
don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea."

---Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich -- Napolean

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
Anon.

Every flower must grow through dirt.
Anon.

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave thier hearts behind.
Betty Bender

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley

"All men desire peace,but very few desire those things that make for peace."
-Thomas a Kempis

"Fear drives you and makes you better."
-- Donna Shalala

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault;
if he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested."
--Rovert J. Sawyer

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. - unknown

Credit cards are like mosquitoes.
You can keep them away for a while, but sooner or later they will be back to suck your blood. - Ted Steckley

All would live long but none would be old. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. - John Florio (1553-1625)

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. - unknown

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of
courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for
this."

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Spanish writer

"What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that
is merely rich and powerful? It is the simple things that make the
difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and
the courage of conviction."

David L(yle) Boren (b. 1941)
American politician, Governor of OK

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)
French general, Napoleon I of France

Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing.- Yiddish

Love in it's truest form has no language or words,
it just has a thousand and one actions
we all wish we could describe.
- Kenneth B. Emery -

We make war that we may live in peace -- Aristotle

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you
don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
-- Sir James M. Barrie

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends
listen to what you don't say.

There are three kinds of liars...men, women, and statistics!
--College Economics Professor

"The entire secret of success with your emotions is this:

You feel good not because the world is right, but your
world is right because you feel good."

"You know the world is going crazy when the best
rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy,
France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany
doesn't want to go to war."

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. - Horace (65-8 BC)

My grandmother used to say ~ "Men are like shadows...chase after them and
they will run away. But if you act standoffish, as if you couldn't care less,
they come after you."

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
------Henry Ford

"I shall pass through this
world but once. Any good
therefore that I can do
or any kindness that I can
show to any human being,
let me do it now. Let me
not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this
way again."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi ~~

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us."
– Robert Louis Stevenson

A generation ago, a motto was placed on the walls of many homes. It read
simply:
Fear knocked at the door
Faith answered
There was no one there.

"If you say my eyes are beautiful, It's because they're looking at you"

Whitney Houston
Song´s name: If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful

"Not to decide is to decide"
Harvey Cox

Don't settle for the one you can live with, wait for the one
you can't live without
--- Anon

F.E.A.R. acronym
False Evidence Appearing Real
And F*** Everything And Run

"It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.'" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
--William M. Thackeray

"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas."
--Anon.

FEAR = Forgetting Everything is All Right

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you
aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

The husband is the head of the family; the wife is the neck. And the neck
turns the head.

It is better to entretain an idea than to take it home to live with you for
the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nervil

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your heart." -Buddha

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. -- James Joyce The Dead

Too bad that all the people who know
how to run the country are busy
driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns, quoted in Life

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."
--Saint Augustine

The hardest things in life....
are the best things in life....
-- Kirk McKee

"Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures"
-- Percy Wells Cerutty

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...so...Explore. Dream.
Discover."
-- Mark Twain

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
~ Golda Meir

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns

Always forgive your enemies -- Nothing annoys them so much.
~ Oscar Wilde

* "Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

". . . trust yourself when all men doubt you / But make allowance for their doubting too."
--Rudyard Kipling

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too
short for those who rejoice, but for those who love , time is eternity.
Henry VanDyke

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is
that good news?"

-- Douglas Adams

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not
have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave
me."
Erma Bombeck

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
- Lisa Hoffman -

"It's one thing to say you believe in something,
but so much more to prove it."
~~~Bob Perks

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that
the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking.
If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
- Andy Rooney

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.

But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty
and so is your head.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a
song.

- Maya Angelou

"A friend is someone who asks how you are, and actually listens to your
answer."

"A friend is someone who can see the truth and the pain in you, even when
you are fooling everyone else."

100 memories, 200 jokes, 300 great times, 400 secrets 1 reason.. *BESTFRIENDS*

"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

"Best friends hang tough. They don’t come with ‘Fragile’ stickers and are
not easily scared off, or ticked off. Best friends help you out whenever
they can, make time for you even when they don’t have any, and trust your
friendship enough to say ‘no’. Best friends are
cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die, good-times-and-bad-times, borrow-anything,
tell-you-everything, trust-you-with-their-deepest-darkest-secrets,
always-and-forever friends."

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French
fries without making them give you any of theirs."

"Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well."
--Danish Proverb

Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first."
~Bashar

If you aren't happy, you aren't really living. People say you should
judge whether or not you're alive by whether or not you're breathing,
but I disagree with that. I think, in order to judge if you are truly
alive, you must look at the moments in your life that have taken your
breath away.
~ Michele Metych

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of
the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the
strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits,
that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."
--John E. Southard

"Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly
does."
-- Douglas Adams

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters,
your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame
anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault.
But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to
change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as
simple as that, isn't it?"
...... Katherine Hepburn

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows
you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to
try new things.The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions:could have, might
have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

---Arnold H. Glasow

"Most people would rather be certain they are miserable, than risk being
happy."

Robert Anthony

"True friends stab you in the front."

Oscar Wilde

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."
--John Wayne

"All your life
you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say
you're not good enough or strong enough
or talented enough. They'll say you're the wrong height
or the wrong type to play this or be this
or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO,
a thousand times no until all the no's become meaningless.
All your life they will tell you no,
quite firmly and very quickly. They will tell you no.
And YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."
-- Nike ad

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

"The miracle isn't that I finished...The miracle is that I had the courage to start." -John Bingham

"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes. It knows it must out run the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve. But, unless you're a runner, you won't understand." -Nike ad

"It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud." -Adidas ad

"Focus on the doughnut, not the hole."

"In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that."

"How far is enough? Far enough is where bad days become good days. Far enough is where problems become solutions. Far enough is where you're ready to turn around and go back." -New Balance ad

"If you waste your days with your tongue silent,
You'll never know what it's like to talk,
If you keep your heart behind a wall,
You'll never know what it's like to love,
If you spend your life on the edge of the cliff,
You'll never know what it's like to fly." -Dan O'Shea

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar Wilde

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. --Felicity

Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
--The Wizard of Oz

When you're little, you like to think you know everything, but the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask. -Taken

Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be. -Taken

My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out that there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. That's not your old life at all. That's your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were. Your choice is about hiding, or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you. -Taken

Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day your in diapers, the next your gone, but the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a house like alot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like alot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder. -The Wonder Years

When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time. -The Wonder Years

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this to be true." -Unknown

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. "
- Katherine Cebrian

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959 )

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." ~Phyllis Diller~

"If I never met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you, If I didn't love you,
I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will."
~Unknown~

"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." ~Wizard of Oz~

"All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us." ~Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold), The Wonder Years~

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries.
Life gives up and life tries.
But life looks different through everyone's eyes."
Unknown

"Advice from a Tree"
Stand Tall & Proud
Remember your Roots!
Be content with your Natural Beauty
Drink Plenty of Water
Enjoy the View!

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched,and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time."
~Hobbes~

" Remember to enjoy the moment....We are only
here for a flicker in the span of time."

"Courage does not always roar. It sometimes is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

"How silent the woods would be if only the best birds sang."

"May your dreams sail high and wide, and the child in your heart remain forever."

"If I try, I can't fail" ~Michael Jordan~

"Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about." ~Nike ad~

“What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?”

"Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time."
~Steven Wright~

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to
sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
Will Rogers

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." ~Winnie the Pooh~

"I always knew I'd look back at the times I cried, and laugh...but I never thought I'd look back at the times I laughed, and cry."

"Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go." ~The Wonder Years~

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

"You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh." ~Jay Leno~

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

"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet on the way."

"A real friend is a person who, when you've made a fool of yourself, helps you forget it." ~Unknown~

"Eat shit!- Ten billion flies can't be wrong."

To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks."

“Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.”

"Beer, helping white guys dance since 1842"

If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller-skates.
~Willy Wonka~

I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman! ~Homer~

I'd stop eating chocolate, but I'm no quitter.

"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive." ~Bugs Bunny~

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

“Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine.”

"A person knows he has found his true love when they call that person and say: Honey, I just killed someone. And that persons response is where do we hide the body?"

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough.
It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it?
A Death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You
should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home.
You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch and you go to
work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your
retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you
get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you
play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back
into the womb, spend your last nine months floating...and you
finish off as an orgasm."

"I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween."

"People say hard work never killed anyone, but I say why should I take the chance"

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

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."
~ Doug Horton

"Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it." --Henry Ward Beecher

"People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve."
--John Miller

"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness."
--David Weatherford

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

"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today." -- Stacia Tauscher

"If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule."-Anita Blake

"You don't frighten us, English pig dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-King, you and all your silly English Kkkknnnights! I unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window dresser! So, you think you could out-clever us French folks with your silly, knees-bent, running-about, advancing behavior? I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy-leather, second-hand electric donkey bottom-biters! No chance, English bed-wetting types. I burst my pimples at you and call your door-opening request a silly thing, you tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms! I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food-trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Friends don't let friends...go to clubs dressed like The Crow." - Anonymous

Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. -Anita, The Laughing Corpse

"I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all." Anita - The Lunatic Cafe

" 'Can the sarcasm,' he said.
'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.' " Dolph & Anita - Circus of the Damned

"Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it." Anita - Guilty Pleasures

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further
than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to
begin with.
~Dorothy~

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
~Professor Marvel~

"Such as we are made of, such we be."
-- William Shakespeare

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
-- Michael Faraday: (1791-1867) English physicist, chemist

Screw every1 who said it can't b dun - jus coz they couldn't. Screw every1 who tried 2 make u feel weak coz it was de only way they cud feel strong. Screw every1 who tried 2 make u b different coz they didn't get that if u couldn't b who u had 2 b...u were screwed!

Love is the feeling that you're feeling when the feeling that you're feeling is the feeling you've never felt before. :P~

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, & wills.
--Richard Needham

The world is a great book, he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.
- St. Augustine

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.

~ Emily Dickinson

Don't be afraid of showing your feelings, be afraid of regretting it when you didn't.
--- Laura Springer

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an
open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks.

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"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write
with."
Marty Feldman.

"The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred,
Barney..."
Steven Wright.

"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated
that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't
understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who
your dentist is?"
Paul Merton.

"auntie em: hate you, hate kansas, taking the dog." -dorothy

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.

Warning: dates on calendar are closer than they appear.

Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.

Love: two vowels, two consonants, two fools.

if we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made with meat?

Your kid may be an honor student but you're still an idiot

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they
don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the
world. Hobbes: Isn't the zipper on your pants supposed to be in the
front?

"Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Kermit the Frog

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. --
Salvador Dali

On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor Stigler,
I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me." To which Stigler
replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the
University will allow me to award."

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but
phone calls taper off. -- Johnny Carson

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. --
Ashleigh Brilliant

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years
and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some
of the worst movies in the history of the world. -- Dave Barry

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you
hear them speak.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because
it's much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Why do they sterilize the needle for a lethal injection?

What do you do when you discover an endangered animal that eats only
endangered plants?

If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?