Better a drop of wisdom than an ocean of gold.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them
discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe
that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
-- Bruce Barton

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."
---Plato

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Reality bites... and doesn't let go." - Source Unknown

"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a
reflection of him?" - Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes)

".Show your pride,
dont hold on to it
Inside".
~Karen Magee

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but
by the moments that take our breath away."
-- Anonymous

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is to try to please everyone."
-- Bill Cosby

"Try not to become a person of success,
but rather to become a person of value."
-- Albert Einstein

Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't
like solitary confinement.

What happens when you let your mind wander? Studies have
shown when a human mind has nothing specific to think about,
it becomes chaotic, flitting from one thought to another in
a random way. That's why studies show that people are more
often in a good mood while working than they are in their
free time.
- Adam Khan, YouMe Works Publishing

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
-Sir William Blackstone, "Commentaries on the Laws of England"

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
Nietzsche

If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it.
Unknown

".Move very silent
Be very quick,
You'll always catch your man".
~Karen MAgee

Accept that life is hard, unfair, and painful -- then be joyful and
live life to the fullest.

A soul that did not suffer would never fully know itself.

It was while sinking into the sea of suffering that I learned, hope
floats.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
There are too many people who think that the only thing
that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong
is to get caught.
- J. C. Watts

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
- Margaret Thatcher

"You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try."
~~ Beverly Sills ~~

Dare to be naive.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you do
hold.
- Josh Billings

Never argue with an idiot. they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience!

I keep trying to lose weight but it always finds me

What the hell - you might be right, you might be wrong - but don't
just avoid.
~ Katherine Hepburn

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a
good man's fortune.
~ St. Basil

Flow like the wind,Move like the breeze
Dont let life knock you to your knees".
~Karen Magee

It's better to have an impossible dream than no dream at all.
Unknown

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people’s idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
––Winston Churchill, English statesman (1874 — 1965)

"Getting up when you've failed is a victory."
-- Eva

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance -- Rilke

What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings but his lips are so strangely formed that, when the sighs and cries escape him, it sounds like beautiful music -- Fran Healy

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul

Heaven is other people holding you in their hearts

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time -- Carlyle

Poets are but lonely men with the hearts of others in their loneliness

You know what the saddest thing in the world is? Loving someone who used to love you -- Darla, "Buffy the VAmpire Slayer"

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine.

It takes real breeding, to make a person feel like shit with one word. -Anita Blake from Guilty Pleasures

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
~ William Shakespeare ~

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
-From "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"And what good is a book without pictures or conversations?"
-- Alice in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

"Do you not know that I am a woman? When I think, I must speak."
- Shakesphere (As You Like It)

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
- Epictetus, "Discourses"

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” -Wiliam Blake, Auguries of Innocence

"The successful man knows something about everything,"
he said. p50
"Cheaper by the dozen," by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. &
Ernestine Carey, publ 1948.

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
From THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere.
~ Cher

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way.
If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
- Unknown

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or aquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."
Gelett Burgess

"Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art."
Charles McCabe

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
––Carl Sagan, American astronomer (19 — 1996)

Men go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not fish that they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
(50 AD - 138 AD)

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who…live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
––President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 — 1919)

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
- Mae West

The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a
moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
~ Anais Nin

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
--Henry Ford

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
––Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader (1869 — 1948)

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple,
pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran

Always there remains portions of our heart into which no one is able
to enter, invite them as we may.
~ Mary Dixon Thayer

"I can't" is a coward,
"I'll try" is a soldier,
"I will" is a king.
~~ Unknown ~~

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to
wait on divine live; to write truth first on the table of one's own
heart--this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
~ Mary Baker Eddy

"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.

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it's the tiny voice at the end of
the road that says, "I'll try again tomorrow"

You get two things in life--what you really want and what you really fear.
-Richard Bach

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."
George Santayana.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.
~ Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

We all take different
paths in life,
but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each
other everywhere.;
-- Tim McGraw

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
––Albert Einstein, American physicist (1879 — 1955)

The most beautiful people I have known
are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, know struggle, known loss
and have found their way out of the depths.
These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity,
and an understanding of life that fills them
with compassion and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.
(Historian Roy Nichols)

"If the world is our playground, why aren't we playing
more?" -- Eva

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all
evidence that you tried."
-- Anonymous

“Behind every successful man is a surprised
woman.”
-- Maryon Pearson

I was driving down the road. I saw a guy with a sign. It
said "heaven". So I hit him. I think he'll get there --
he seemed like a nice guy.
- Steven Wright

Real friends have no problem with silence.
- Jim Lehrer (1934-)

" Enjoy each day of your life, not just the weekends."
--- Copyright © 2002 Shaunic Stinson

" When you live in yesterday and wait for tomorrow, there is no today."
--- Copyright © 2002 David Boe

" When times get rough, just remember that somewhere in the world, there is someone having a tougher time in life. Just remember!!"
--- Author Unknown

Never wound a heart that loves you
It causes endless pain
For wounded hearts are like roses
That may never bloom again
--- Author Unknown

" It's better to light a match, than curse the dark."
--- Author Unknown

" An expert at anything was once a beginner."
--- Author Unknown

" No matter what the outcome, it was better to have been on the side of those who were for life, than those who were for death."
--- Albert Camus

"Think before you do."
--- Author Unknown

I'll lean on you and
you lean on me and
we'll be okay
-- Dave Matthews

A Friend is one who comes in when the world has gone out.
--Inspiration by Garborg

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

It is the imagination that helps us find meaning and beauty in our
lives... we are alive or dead according to the condition of our souls.
~ Carol S. Pearson

It is the imagination that helps us find meaning and beauty in our
lives... we are alive or dead according to the condition of our souls.
~ Carol S. Pearson

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

When the character of a man is not clear to you,
look at his friends.
- Japanese proverb