so don't you sit upon the shorelines, and say you're satisfied, choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides... [garth brooks]

one good thing about music - when it hits, you feel no pain. [bob marley]

perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. but why not risk it anyway? begin today. carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you. [princess diana]

i try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward. [charlotte bronte]

i really wish i was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. [billy joel]

"Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood." - Donnie* Darko

"Do you think Shakespeare was gritting his teeth and diligently trying to write Great Literature? Of course not. He was having fun. That's why he's so good.
If you want to do good work, what you need is a great curiosity about a promising question. The critical moment for Einstein was was when he looked at Maxwell's equations and said, what the hell is going on here?"-Paul Graham

"And so we will remember him all our lives. And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honour or fall into great misfortune — still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us, for the time, better perhaps than we are."-Alyosha, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I love waking up in the morning not knowing where I'm gonna go or who I'm gonna meet. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge, and now here I am, on the grandest ship in the world, having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift, and I don't intend on wasting it."-Jack, Titanic

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. -American Beauty

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injusticeand tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, themaster calls a butterfly. "~ Richard Bach

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support, rather than for illumination."

"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day."

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."-- Voltaire

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered by your old nonsense."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Build for yourself a strongbox, fashion each part with care. When it's strong as your hand can make it, put all your troubles there. Hide there all thought of your failures, and each bitter cup that you quaff. Lock all your heartaches within it, then sit on the lid and laugh."-- Bertha Adams Backus

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."-- Helen Keller

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius

And now that scared little girl no longer follows me wherever I go, I miss her. I do. Cause there are things I want to tell her...to relax, to lighten up, that it's all going to be okay. I want her to know that meeting people who like you, who understand you, who actually accept you for who you are, will become an increasingly rare occurance. These people contributed to who I am, they are with me wherever I go, and as history gets rewritten in small ways with each passing day, my love for them only grows. Because the truth is it was the best of times. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned, but all that has receded into fond memory now. How does it happen? Why are we so quick for forget the bad and romanticize that good? Maybe it's because we need to believe that the time we spend together acutally meant something, that we were there for eachother in a time in our lives that defined us all, a time in our lives we will never forget. I can't swear this is exactly how it happened. But this is how it felt.~Joey(Dawson's Creek)

"My goal is not to wake up at forty with a bitter realization that I wasted my life at a job I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens. -Daria

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."-- Norman Cousins

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." -Aldous Huxley

Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy....... The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree. Share this with other women who are good apples, even those who have already been picked! Now Men.... Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.~Dolly Parton

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~Albert Schweitzer

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy." - Jim Hightower

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. -E. V. Lucas

"Trust not those...without some touch of madness." ~~ Thalia Zedek

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods -

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more." Boiste

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual by creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.--William James

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great becaue of their passion. -Martha Graham

So many gods, so many creeds;So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all the sad world needs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy."- Babylon 5

"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away."- Babylon 5

"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 de Saint-Exupery

“People are so busy dreaming the American dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the age of human error.” –Florence King.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. --George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

One day we'll say hello, and wish we never said goodbye. --unknown

"Nobody's last words have ever been, 'I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.'" --Amy Krouse Rosenthal

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." --Katherine Hepburn

"If men knew what women laughed about, they would never sleep with us. --Erica Jong

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naguib

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out – it's the grain of sand in your shoe.~Robert Service

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.~Henry Ward Beecher

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? Renton, "Trainspotting"

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know'
the universe when it's hard enough to find
your way around Chinatown."

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
--Robert Fritz

"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile." -- Billy Sunday

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy

"Its the way I felt going through a relationship, and if I wanna say fuck you I'm going to say fuck you. If you wanna beep it out, go ahead and beep it out, but I still said fuck you." ~ Sully Erna.

"Love is like the wind; you cannot see it, but you can feel it." - A Walk to Remember

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. --Chinese proverb--

"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--

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life" --Mark Twain--

"You can't get into a piss fight with a skunk" --Dr Webb (director of study abroad at Meredith)

"Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will..."-Hope Floats

“You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions, make choices. You keep moving forward. But sooner or later there comes a time when you look back over where you have been …and wonder who you really are.”-The Wonder Years

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

- Oscar Wilde

"It's everybody, i mean. Everything everbody does is so - i don't know- not wrong or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But it's just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everyone else, only in a different way." - J.D. Salinger

"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."

Ferdinand Magellan

"No,no don't speak- for some moments in life there are no words"-Willy Wonka

"Sometimes it's easier to pretend things are okay rather than face a difficult truth.So we go through the motions and rituals of everyday life.We hope the comfortable rhythms of familiarity will hold off the inevitable just a little longer.Return things to normal, anything to buy us more time.Playing pretend,make believe - it might be one thing we never outgrow."-Everwood

Even though I don't have to put on a suit every morning at 8 a.m., we all have one thing in common and that's fear. Call it fear of the unknown, fear of failure or just fear that you can't schedule your social life around your classes. Any way you look at it, these things are always intimidating. Everything seems to scare you at first...

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you
anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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 ~

"a sentimental person thinks things will last- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
-this side of paradise

“... have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged; their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone." -Shawshank Redemption

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
--Author Unknown

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
--Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

"Gentleness requires tremendous strength. Gentleness is having the power not to react when everything about the circumstance says you should. Gentleness is the beginning of learning what love is all about."

~ Shale Paul in The Warrior Within

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, wanders into your stupid life .... you give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns you into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts, not just in the imagination, not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
-neil gaiman

“I was normal once, I didn't like it. “ -Bumper Sticker

"We long to be known and we fear it like nothing else. Most people live with a subtle dread that one day they will be discovered for who they really are and the world will be appalled." - Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, The Sacred Romance

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with-Sex and the City

"If this is coffee, please bring me tea; but if this is tea, please bring me coffee." - Abraham Lincoln

If you haven't contemplated murder, you ain't been in love. If you haven't seriously thought about killing a motherfucker, you ain't been in love. If you haven't had a can of rat poison in your hand and looked at it for forty-five minutes straight, you ain't been in love. If you haven't bought a shovel and a bag and a rug to roll their ass up in, you ain't been in love. If you haven't practiced your alibi in front of the mirror, you ain't been in love. And the only thing that's stopped you from killin' this motherfucker was a episode of CSI: "Oh man, they thorough. I better make up. They might catch my ass."--Chris Rock

"It has taken you seventeen incarnations to arrive at this truth?" said Yama. "I can see then why you are still doing time as an ape."



Roger Zelazny,
Lord of Light

3 tomatoes are walking down the street- Papa Tomato, Mama Tomato, and Baby Tomato. The Baby Tomato starts lagging behind and the Papa Tomato got really mad. So he goes and squishes the Baby Tomato and says "ketchup". -Pulp Fiction

"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked!!!" -Jimmie Hendrix

There have been men who loved the future like a mistress, and the future mixed her breath into their breath and shook her hair about them, and hid them from the understanding of their times.

--W. B. Yeats, 'William Blake & the Imagination'

Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

~Oscar Wilde

"I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter."
-William Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
-James A. Baldwin

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
--George Bernard Shaw

A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the thought and the
thought finds the words.
--Robert Frost

I and my kind do not convince by argument; we convince by our presence.
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"you know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is chinese, the swiss hold the america's cup, france is accusing the u.s. of arrogance, germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in america are named 'bush', 'dick', and 'colon.' need I say more?" -- chris rock

From "American Beauty."

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die.

First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time...

For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars...

And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street...

Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper...

And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird...

And Janie...

And Janie...

And... Carolyn.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...

...and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry...

You will someday.

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.--Simon Wilder, With Honors

"they speak of revenge. and eye for an eye, but who will enjoy freedeom, when everybody's blind?"

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well
known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
-- Fred Allen

"there comes a point in everyone's life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.."

"you only live once.. but if you live it right, once is enough."

"The dishonest men you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, its the honest ones you want to watch out for. You can never tell when they're about to do something incredibly... stupid." Captain Jack Sparrow, off "Pirates Of The Caribbean".