Don't make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.-Blood and Gold The Vampire Chronicles

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch." ~Joan Rivers

Gotta focus on the future; not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. The Guardian

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Does it matter in whose name good is done? Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good. It is the actions which matter, not the Name it is done for.
--Mercedes Lackey, Winds of Fate

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

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it - you don't want it bad enough. -by Tom Krause from Chicken soup for the teenage soul III

"It is important to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said, but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." -Life of Pi

"...for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. all your grief hasn't changed a thing. what you have lost will not be returned to you. it will always be lost. you're left with only your scars to mark the void. all you can choose to do is go on or not. but if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you." -Cold Mountain

a college class was told to write a short story, but it had to contain these three things:
1. religion
2. sexuality
3. mystery

there was one A+ short story:

"good god, i'm pregnant. i wonder who did it."

"Its just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
-Fry

"The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."
-- David Richerby

"Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever." -Po Bronson

"Man, astronauts must get a lot of girls. It says here they get all the Tang they want!"

-Kelso on "That 70's Show"

"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. It's as if I never.. I never thought.. anything. I never wrote.. anything. I never felt.. anything. All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence." -Sylvia

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." -Umberto Eco

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
-- Mitch Hedberg

..it's not the ones who've been with you the longest,
it's the the ones who came and never left your side..

Even if you fall on your face, at least you are moving forward. - Unknown

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?We make tools for these kinds of people. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

~ Apple Computer Advertisement

"Befriend your inner bitch. If you're heading into battle, you want that bitch on your side."
- Mama Gena

Those who try to be everything to everybody end up meaning nothing to no one.

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
~ Virginia Woolf

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

- Author Unknown

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music
or pictures or architecture or anything else,
is always a portrait of himself.
~Samuel Butler

"I love the stories. You know, about fallin' in love, and having love knock you around, and then the pressures of the world on you so tough it makes you feel small. You just want to give your soul to God. You might as well, your ass belongs to him."~Ray

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.
~Murphy's Law

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
~Dave Barry

Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.
~Author Unknown

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
~ Al McGuire

"Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally, I grabbed the kid by the bib and said, 'Look, it's always gonna be me!'" ~Rita Rudner

"All right brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this so I can get back to killing you with beer." ~Homer Simpson

"It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." ~Shirley MacLaine

"I do not like work even when someone else does it" ~Mark Twain

“Getting jiggy wit it is like, the next level of cool. It’s cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you the jiggiest, you exhume jiggy-essence. It’s the acme of cool” ~Will Smith

Things go wrong in life. They just do. And sometimes downturns feel like they'll never get back to right-side up. Life is like that. So what! What we have been given is not what makes us who we are: the true measure of our soul's success is what we make with what we are given.
-Guy Finley

"The emptier the cart, the greater the noise it makes".
-Anon.

"Culture is is no longer created by the people. Our stories, once passed from one generation to the next by parents, neighbours and teachers, are now told by distant corporations with "something to sell as well as tell". Brands, products, fashions, celebrities, entertainments- the spectacles that surround the production of culture- are our culture now. Our role is mostly to listen and watch- and then, based on what we have heard and seen, to buy."

-Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam

"Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
-- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

-St. Augustine

Never expect anything and you'll never be disappointed.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

-Maurice Setter

What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful.

-Unknown

As we grow up,
we learn that even the one person
that wasn't supposed to ever let you down,
probably will.
You will have your heart broken
probably more than once
and it's harder every time
You'll break hearts too
so remember how it felt when yours was broken
You'll fight with your best friend
You'll blame a new love
for things an old one did
You'll cry because time is passing too fast
and you'll eventually lose someone you love
So take too many pictures
laugh too much
and love like you've never been hurt
because every sixty seconds you spend upset
is a minute of happiness you'll never get back

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was once talking with a woman about how the North must treat the South. She disagreed with him, and said that she felt that we must destroy our enemies.
Lincoln replied, "What, madam? Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck." - good karma

"Whoever you are there is always some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never get done unless you do it. There is some one who would miss you if you were gone. And there is a place that you alone can fill." -J.M. Braude

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." -Oscar Wilde

"Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn't suck." -Joss Whedon

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

"i was looking up at the night sky, and i could see everything. the stars.. planets.. galaxies. and i felt so small. like a tiny speck that is here for only one moment in time, and then gone. and while i'm here i want to be with my friends and the people i love, because, when i'm with you guys, i don't feel that small... that's what i learned."
- Boy Meets World -

WHATEVER YOU DO, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are 3 kinds of love: love, big love, and great love:Love you get over in 2 monthsBig Love you get over in 2 yearsGreat Love changes your life forever"

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

"He just grinned and said, "Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss..." He turned to me. "But every once in awhile your find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.""- Both from "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen.

"Alrighty, then you'll want something inspirational. We just got the latest in the series: Chicken Soup For The Condemned To Hell Soul."- Both from "Bald In The Land Of Big Hair" by Joni Rodgers.

"Those who never get out of the boat never know what it's like to walk on water."-Ron Hutchcraft

"There are millions of people in the world but in the end it all comes down to one." -Crazy/Beautiful

"You owe it to yourself to see what you can get away with."Peg Bracken, The I Hate To Housekeep Book

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

"I'm going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I'm going to smile"- unknown

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."--Unknown

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they arerunning from, and to, and why.-- James Thurber

Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday. Homer: Woo-hoo. Four-day weekend.

"at the beep please leave your name, number, and a brief justification for the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma and we'll get back to you."-reality bites

Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. shaw shank redemption

Time is too slow for those who wait,too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

"I believe in everything until it's disproved.So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.It all exists, even if it's in your mind.Who's to say that dreams and nightmaresaren't as real as the here and now? "-John Lennon

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything"

Here is a great spiritual truth: The only time we ever "fail" at anything in our lives is when we walk away from a challenge before we've allowed it to teach us its lessons.-- Guy Finley

You always carry within yourself the very thing that you need forthe fulfillment of your life purpose.--Malidoma Some

"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'" -- Frederick L Collins

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are." -- Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794)

"Be careful, mate, not all sharks are in the water."--Adventure, Pagemaster

"You see in the end it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway." -Mother Theresa

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

"You don't get to choose, you just fall ... And you get this person who is all wrong and all right at the same time. And you know that you love them so much except sometimes they just drive you completely insane and no one can explain it and the reason its so confusing is because its love. but if love didn't have any challenges, what would be the point?"

"Never sign a valentine with your own name."--- Charles Dickens (1837)

"There's a difference between doing right because its right and doing right because it makes you special and superior." Billie, Where's Walky.

"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand."

"My heroes are those who've seen me crumble to my knees in desperation and let me fall, even if it killed them, because they understood that the only way I could ever become strong enough to live Life successfully meant having to excercise the muscles which make it possible for a person to survive on their own." - Carol Avila

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle thanthe courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.~John F. Kennedy

"I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are." - Jim Carrey

"I'll show you how to do something onceI'll help you if you mess up twice but the third time you're on your own because that's how it is in the real world"- The mother in 'Ray'

why can't we pantomine,just close our eyes andsleep sweet dreams?-- "the great beyond" - r.e.m.

"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice. She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. The she looks outrageous. It doesn't matter if it's not true, because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's the perfect truth." .. nora roberts

I always thought that there was this one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person the rest of the world kind of magically faded away, and, you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble, but there is no bubble, I mean if there is you have to make it, I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, we can make choices, and we can choose to protect the people we love, and that's what makes us who we are and those are the real memories ~Forces of Nature

The same stars and the same moon just keep shining. Terrible things happen, things too awful to believe. But the stars keep shining just the same. --"Anne Frank and I"

"You know... opinions are like assholes. Everybody has them and sometimes they stink." -uknown

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