"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but
has no vision." ~~ Helen Keller ~~

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

~ Leslie Marmon Silko

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do... --- Eleanor Roosevelt 1884

When you fall into a pit, either you get out or die.
Chinese Proverb from China

Much happiness
is overlooked because it
doesn't cost anything.
~Oscar Wilde

quote from Helen Keller:

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

" The supreme happpiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved
for ourselves, or rather inspite of ourselves." --Victor Hugo

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."

- Johnny Carson (1925-)

"When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end;

without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you."

- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert

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

-- Tim McGraw

I'll lean on you and
you lean on me and
we'll be okay

-- Dave Matthews

Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)

"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."
-- Brad Pitt, movie Fight Club

"Our differences are what make us special. Comparing
ourselves to others only serves to undermine our worth."
--Eva

"You can only lead others where you yourself are prepared to go."

---Lachlan McLean

"Problems can become opportunities
when the right people come together."

~~ Robert Redford ~~

To choose is also to begin.
~ Starhawk (Dreaming the Dark)

"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."
--John L. Spalding

Only do what only you can do.
- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
--- Anon

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) US essayist, poet, naturalist

".Be a Friend to all,
And All will be a friend Back".
~Karen S.Magee

Never get upset over things,
That are trivial,Life goes on".
~Karen S.Magee

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not
say so.
- David Grayson

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
- William Congreve

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we
do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not
find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do
not have love we will be unhappy.- Richard Bach

"I see no point in looking back at what I didn't get done. I
choose, instead, to acknowledge where I am and where I want
to be; then determine what steps it will take to get me
there." --Eva

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come
as the result of hard fighting.
--Henry Ward Beecher

"The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn."
-Abraham Lincoln

"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them
except in the from of bread."
-Mohandas Gandhi

"Better a thousand times to die with glory than to live without honor."
-Louis VI of France

" There are days when I just want to break down and howl
To give up and completely, to throw in the towel,
But I hold my head high and I push my way through.
I have too much to give and so much to do."
Author Unknown

Am I a nicer person? I think that's the wrong statement.
I'm not mean to anybody. I have my moments when I want
to and moments I
don't. But that doesn't make me a bad person.
- Barry Bonds

"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you
said couldn't be done."

---Sam Ewing

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.
But if you are beautiful at sixty,
it will be your soul's own doing."

~~ Marie Carmichael Stopes ~~

I envy things on which a price tag cannot be put. I envy anyone who can
do a backward somersault in midair from a standing position. I envy
people who speak foriegn languages easily...men who have fought a war
and survived. I envy people who can travel abroad with a single piece
of carry-on luggage. I envy people who have good posture...Above all, I
envy those few people who truly understand that life is a fragile
bargain, rescindable at any time by the other party and live their lives
accordingly."
-Joseph Epstein

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live
long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Anonymous

I can accept failure -- everyone fails at something.
But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of
the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are
surrounded by adventure. You have no idea what is
in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know
the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the
unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in
which the gods may offer it.
-- Freya Stark

She crossed borders recklessly, refusing to recognize
limits, saying "bonjour" and "buon giorno" as though
she owned both France and Italy and the day itself. . .
She was free to grasp it all: to bite into fruit that had
ripened on other people's trees; to warm herself in
the sun they had hung out.
-- Helen Hudson

"The true perfection of man lies, not in what man
has, but in what man is. Nothing should be able
to harm a man but himself. Nothing should be
able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is
what is in him. What is outside of him should be
a matter of no importance."
-Oscar Wilde

"I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the
voices that will be silenced--writers voices, teachers' voices,
students' voices--and all because of fear."
-Judy Blume

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
--- Aneurin Bevan 1897

"When there's real value in what you have to offer, your
actions speak for you. You don't need to speak it or flaunt
it." --Eva

People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did, but
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Unknown

"Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time
and sometimes you weep."
-- Anonymous

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore
ourselves?"
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is
one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed."
-- Ani DiFranco

"I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world
owes us nothing, we owe each other the world."
-- Ani DiFranco

"Don't let success go into your head nor failures go into your heart."

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"


Leonardo da Vinci.

" What is meant to last will last
So look towards the future but NEVER forget the past."
--- Copyright © 2000 Nicole Renzulli

'Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.'
Chinese Proverb

"I have loved many, the more and the few-
I have loved many that I might love you."
-Grace Fallow Norton

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to
look things in the face and know them for what they are.
~ Marcus Aurelius

".Be Who you are,
And do so with pride".
~Karen S.Magee

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major
value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay
fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn
it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that
makes nothing of me."
Jim Rohn

"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home
when trouble arrives, you can only win."
-- Shelley Long

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change
around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities
need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you, no one can take it
away."
-Tom Clancy

"There are two things I've learned: There is no
Cinderella. And, I'm not her Prince."
-- Anonymous

Spend some time alone every day.
- The Dalai Lama

Great change dominates the world, and unless we move with
change we will become its victims.
- Robert F. Kennedy

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define
yourself." *******Wayne Dyer******

"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other
hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have
to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not
the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not
intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and
I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the
world around me, the better company I am for myself."
******Noel Coward******

"Your chances in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief
in yourself."

--- Robert Collier, 1885-1950, The Secret of the Ages

"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like
Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like
Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of
Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great
sweeper, who swept his job well."

--- Martin Luther King, Jr., Facing The Challenge Of A New Age In
Philosophy

" If you don't believe you can do it, then you won't.
If you believe you can, you will.
If you try and don't succeed, you can at least say you were there.
If you don't try, you missed out on life."
--- Copyright © 2000 Jackie Larsen

Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it.
~Salvador Dali~

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
- Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

Love is patient.
Love is kind.
It does not envy.
It does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
--1 Corinthians 13

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you
want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never
give up."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"You never achieve real success unless you like
what you are doing."

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