"everything is always OK in the end. If it's not OK, then it's not the
end." unknown

"there should be sunshine after rain. there should be laughter after pain.
these things have always been the same. so why worry now?" greatful dead

"don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." unknown

"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come."
--Janet E. Stuart

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
-- Orson Welles

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:
'Whose?'
-- Don Marquis

Life is uncertain...eat dessert first! ..... Anon

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has
happened.
Arnold Bennett

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
- Colette

"The less we look with our eyes, the more we see with our hearts"
Lyndsey Albrecht

"Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know themselves, and
where they dream"
Roger Rosenblatt

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

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains"
~Anne Frank

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein

Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try.

3rd law of thermodynamics: things go worse under pressure.

I was delighted to be able to answer promptly. "I don't know", I said.
Mark Twain

I was delighted to be able to answer promptly. "I don't know", I said.
Mark Twain

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma Ghandi

Warning: dates on calendar are closer than they appear.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.

~~~JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

" Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, You can rise above doubt and judgement.......And you can see forever. "
-- Nancy Kerrigan

"Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreing language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch anyway. And then there are the ones like the commercials, always changes, ever-so-annoying and only seem to be there when you are bored. But every once and a while you meet someone who's like a really good movie of the week or that one tv show you hardly ever get to see anymore because you're so busy. My point is hold on to the friends you care about and since we don't have a remote control to mute someone or just change the channel, pick your friends carefully."

"After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for paths. After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure... That you really are strong, And you really do have worth."
-Veronica A. Shoffstall

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
– Ambrose Bierce

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself."
--Ethel Barrymore

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
--Denis Diderot

“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
-- Jesse Jackson

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be on a crowded velvet cushion.”
--Henry David Thoreau

“There are times when silence has the loudest voice.”
--Leroy Brownlow

“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. “
-- Ninon de L'Enclos

"Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it."
-- Unknown

“We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, afraid of “what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger”
-- Anonymous

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

“Asking a question is only embarrassing just for that moment. Not asking is embarrassing and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.”
-- Japanese Proverb

“The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.”
-- Leo Buscaglia

“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.”
-- Anne Tyler

“Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.”
-- Susanne K. Langer

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Unknown

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

~ Anais Nin

I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just idiots.
I've learned. . . that we don't have to change friends if we understand that
friends change.I've learned. . . that no matter how good a friend is, they're
going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
- Unknown

"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

"America lives in the heart of every
man everywhere who wishes to find
a region where he will be free to
work out his destiny as he chooses."
~Woodrow Wilson

Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow!
That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.
~ Alicia Silverstone ~

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being
happy over the good fortune of others.
~ Archibald Rutledge ~

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning
ain't distributed right."

---Mark Twain

"Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never
really say Goodbye
---Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know
they're always there."
-Anonymous

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no
coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is
cast by a Light. -- H.K. Barclay

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is very messy. Writing helps you order your experience and if
you're lucky you can find meaning. If you see life as a series of
stories, it makes living life lovelier.

~ Jane Hamilton

“No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.”
- Dante Alghieri (1265 – 1321), Italian poet: “Divina Commedia”, 1307.

"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
Eric Morecambe.

"Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff."
Steven Wright.

"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.

"We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture."
Robin Williams.

"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it."
W.C.Fields

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
George Carlin.

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
Rodney Dangerfield.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
- - - H. L. Mencken

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
- - - Carl Jung

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
--Maya Angelou

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
--Stella Adler

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
--Erica Jong

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own
mistakes and that times change.
- Gina Shapira

" true love is when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one"
- back of a tea box

There are times when forgetting can be just as important as
remembering, and even more difficult.
- Harry and Joan Mier

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is
beautiful or to discover something that is true.
~ William Ralph (Dean) Inge

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line
between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on
Earth. So what the hell, leap!
--Peter McWilliams

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted."

---Albert Einstein

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

---Jonathan Kozol (author and teacher)

If you want to be miserable, hate someone.

It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you
win.
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Sometimes things happen for a reason that we can't see and we need to just
suck it up and take a chance because it can mean the world in the end." Casey
Leigh.

We are always the same age inside.

~ Gertrude Stein

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

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who
think Jean de La Bruyère

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Don't confuse fame with success.
Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home
and share it with your family.

~ Anita Baker

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the
great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them,
yet they are the most stable things in our lives."
*******Jesse Herman Holmes*******

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then clothes
Within a dream.
-Enerest Dowson

Anyone who trusts a doctor deserves a disease.
- Floyd Maxwell (1957-)

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 L. Moody

Your past is always going to be the way it was.
Stop trying to change it.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- The Dalai Lama

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own
mistakes and that times change.
- Gina Shapira

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle
of the road. They get run over.
- Ambrose Bierce

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by
all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
- William Hazlitt

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
WILLIS R. WHITNEY

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset,
two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
Horace Mann

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get
tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
- Peter McWilliams

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything:
the young know everything. (Oscar Wilde)

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there
worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~Dale Carnegie