Do you have any favorite quotes, poems, lyrics...? I have tons that I love and am inspired by reading. I wear a silver amulet around my neck, it's a really tiny book and when you turn these sterling silver pages it has etched, "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love" it's a quote by Rumi. I thought maybe it would be fun to post some of our favs in here.:)

This is a great idea Lisa. :) Thanks for starting this. I'll have to give it some thought and come back later. Only thing coming to mind is my favorite short story right now. Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu. A :vampire: story. :)

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -Sir James Barrie

"You know what I like to do at four o'clock? I like to pour myself a big drink, lay out a few lines and abuse a screenwriter. Take a seat"...Don Simpson to a writer for "The Hollywood Reporter", as recounted in Charles Fleming's "High Concept".

Sincerely,

John "outofplacechild" Kilduff

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach for hearts is wise. -Maya Angelou

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -Samuel Johnson

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Author: Charles Kingsley

Dedicated to MY Best Friend

Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truely loving heart.

Dang these are corny...but I like em'! :)

What is Love but the Demon inside or is an Angel, with play on his mind? ("First Love")
John A. Zammit

"The trouble with the world is that everyone is always three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart

"It's not God I have a problem with, it's all his fan clubs!"

I have a million but that comes to mind first. lol

And this one.....

"Who can say they've never made mistakes?
Only fools will suffer what they make
Owning up rids poison when you can
Admitting you were wrong makes you a man"

........The opening to "Sad Wings of Destiny" by Mr. Halford of course. lol

Avarice, envy, pride three fatal sparks have set the hearts of all on fire. -Dante Alighieri ~The Divine Comedy

Cling to your imperfections, they're what make you unique. :)

Take this kiss upon the brow! And in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night or in a day
In a vision or in none
Is it therefor the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream -Edger Allan Poe ~ A Dream Within A Dream

William Parrish: Love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can't live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back. Listen to your heart. No sense in life without this. To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived.
Meet_Joe_Black

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

- George Bernard Shaw

Good idea with the movie quote Milani... here's one of my favorites that ALWAYS makes me cry.

"It was a million tiny little things, that when you added them all up they meant we were supposed to be together...and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. It was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like...magic." -Sleepless In Seattle

Corey: You're not a guy.
Lloyd: I am.
Corey: No. The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy.
Say_Anything

I cannot get you close enough, I said to him, pitiful as a child, and never can and never will. We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the emptiness, to keep from sinking back into sand, heat, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide.

It is embarrassing that it should be so hard. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.

~Ellen Gilchrist
(whom I'm sure I've misquoted a little, but it's mostly there)

“Do you believe in God, Andrei?”
“No.”
“Neither do I. But that’s a favorite question of mine. An upside-down question, you know.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, if I asked people whether they believed in life, they’d never understand what I meant. It’s a bad question. It can mean so much that it really means nothing. So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say they do — then, I know they don’t believe in life.”
“Why?”
“Because, you see, God — whatever anyone chooses to call God — is one’s highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It’s a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.”

-Taken from Ayn Rand's "We The Living"

"You know those days when you get the mean reds? Well when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffanys. Calms me down right away." -Holly Golightly~Breakfast At Tiffanys

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

I LOVE this quote!!! ;)

Take, oh take these lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
and those eyes, the break of day
lights that di miss lead the morn.
But my kisses bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain,
Sealed in vain.

William Shakespeare

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
-George Bernard Shaw

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. W.C. Fields :lol:

One of my favorite quotes comes from Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused book. Mr. Linklater was the Director for Dazed and Confused. He stated, "Let's face it, no matter where you live at no matter what time, High School is a light prison sentence to be served. Once paroled, you don't look back."

I turn on my computer, I sign on, I wait impatiently as it connects and my chest catches my breath as I hear three little words "You've got mail" I hear nothing, not a sound on the city streets just the beat of my own heart. I have mail...from you. Kathleen Kelly -You've Got Mail

This one just seemed cute for here. :goofy:

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. Voltaire

" If the lion had it's own historian , the hunter would not be glorified."

"Life never closes one door without opening another."_ unknown
"It always seems to rain like hell on the losers day parade..." googoo dolls

"True love is unconditional and everlasting, it is established over time and validated with memories of the past."

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's good to want things." - Roxy Carmichael Comes Home

I can see love from this height. If this is life then living-with all it's hurt and disillusion-was not in vain.

It's A Funny Thing About Life; If You Refuse To Accept Anything But The Best, You Very Often Get It ~ Somerset Maugham

I heard this one today and immediately thought of Kayenne. :)

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Teresa

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. - Plato

Originally posted by Flix
I heard this one today and immediately thought of Kayenne. :)

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Teresa


Awwwww :*:*


To Love Is Not To Look At One Another, But To Look Together In The Same Direction ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose unto heaven~ Ecclesiastics 3.1

It is not enough to conquer, one must know how to seduce." ~ Voltaire

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal
cool, Lisa! :)


the one Ty last posted is great, too. :D

What Love Can Be
by: Kingdom Come

Come to me now
I want to be your best friend for all of time
I want to be the tissue for your tears
I never want to be alone
I never really thought that I could feel
A feeling that awakened me so
I was astray of knowing where I belong
Living out of time, living out of time

(chorus)
Now that you’ve come and set me free
Now that I know what love can be
All that I want is you with me
That’s all I want

You allow me to be what I want to be
Thanks for helping me
I feel like a bright shining star
For only you to see, for only you to see

(chorus)
Now that you’ve come and set me free
Now that I know what love can be
All that I want is you with me
That’s all I want

Hold me tight, hold me tight
I won’t let you go
Close to you, close to you
Touch me, don’t let go
Give me all your love
Close to you, close to you
Give me all your love
All that I want
Is you to be with me :love:

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett (1936 - )

Men will do the craziest things just for the love of a Woman.
And Women know it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Cooking is one of the few forms of creativity that is quick, easy, and provides immense satisfaction both to yourself and your audience.....

This is so TRUE... I had to add it to my signature...
"The heart has reasons that Reason doesn't understand." -Jacques Benigne Boussel

"The unexamed life is not worth living" - Socrates

Nothing is impossible. It just hasn't been done yet.....

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Anonymous

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Anonymous

Im sorry honey :bigcry: The clinic said they would take care of it! :clap: :tease:

Give a flower and the scent lingers on your fingers....

(Get it?) :clap: hehehhhheheeheheheheheheee :mwaha:

:lol:
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are allready there. Maureen Reagan

"A troublesome race, these women!" - Mikhail Bulgakov in The Master and Margarita.
"When in doubt, berate the witness" - anonymous I think

Nobody ever told me I found out for myself
Ya gotta believe in foolish miracles
It's not how you play the game
It's if you win or lose
You can choose
Don't confuse win or lose, it's up to you
It's up to YOU!
-Ozzy Osbourne (lyrics to "I Don't Know)

"But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

~ Jack Kerouac, 'On the Road'

It's not how you play the game
It's if you win or lose
-Ozzy Osbourne (lyrics to "I Don't Know)

It's not if you win or lose, it's how you look playing the game! :D

It's not if you win or lose, it's how you look playing the game! :D :lol: :laugh: :clap: THAT TOO! :D

"It's not about dying for your country, its about making sure the other Bastard dies for his" - General George S. Patton

This is so TRUE... I had to add it to my signature...
"The heart has reasons that Reason doesn't understand." -Jacques Benigne Boussel
that's great, I'll have to remember that one.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy's opening line of Anna Karenina.

Yesterday morning as I was driving to work up Bay Street I saw an advertisement for matresses in the window of a large department store. It was lovely and had the soothing headline of "what dreams may come......"

As I got out of the car and had a coffee and a cigarette, I was thinking about the line in the ad and where it came from. I kicked around a few cluttered items in the old brain and pondered the whole stanza that the line had come from....Hamlet's soliloquy.

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil"

Call me crazy, but I don't think I would buy a matress from these people. And if I were them, I would fire my creative team and Ad Agency.

KimJoy, I love this quote in your signature:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

:thumb:

KimJoy, I love this quote in your signature:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

:thumb:Aint it the TRUTH?! :yesnod: :lol:

"Why don't you neutralize some of your weapons-grade stupidity with a big steaming cup of Shut the F up." - As quoted from a co-worker of mine.

I'm in one hell of a foul mood...

"We're a virus with shoes.." - Bill Hicks

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Without music to decorate it, time would be simply a series of paid bills and met deadlines"
~ Frank Zappa

"When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY! I feel GOOD!" -James Brown :lol:

"Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do." -- La Rochefoucauld

Yesterday morning as I was driving to work up Bay Street I saw an advertisement for matresses in the window of a large department store. It was lovely and had the soothing headline of "what dreams may come......"

As I got out of the car and had a coffee and a cigarette, I was thinking about the line in the ad and where it came from. I kicked around a few cluttered items in the old brain and pondered the whole stanza that the line had come from....Hamlet's soliloquy.

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil"

Call me crazy, but I don't think I would buy a matress from these people. And if I were them, I would fire my creative team and Ad Agency.
lol, Bogie.
Death is just another place; nothing to horrid. It's the 'how' that might be a bit unpleasant.

saw this one on a bumper sticker, 'go within or go without'

thought it was cool on various levels. :D :)

"Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do." -- La Rochefoucauld
just a bit scary. :rolleyes:

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright :lol:

"Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes the shortcut to everything." --Samuel Johnson

"Love is an electric blanket with someone else in control of the switch" :lol:
-Cathy Carlyle

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. " - Niels Bohr

We're all gardeners of the heart. Gardeners--because some ancient longing is built into us for the good, sweet earth....There are certain things anybody can plant-- Sweet P's in a straight row for instance: prayer, patience, peace, passion.- Barbara Johnson

The Proof of Desire is Pursuit.... (unknown)

The Proof of Desire is Pursuit.... (unknown)
http://www.joebrower.com/PHILE_PILE/ANIM_GIF/smileys/smiley_headbang.gifAwesome quote, Junior! I agree! :D

"We are two halves of a beautiful whole." -Elizabeth Lowell:love:

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." -- Oscar Wilde

Do not remove the mosquito from your friends brow with a hatchet. Chinese Proverb

:lol: Good one Surfy!

All for one and all for me. (A customer said that today when she was shopping. :lol:)

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin

It doesnt matter where you get your appatite, As long as you EAT :biglick: at home!!!!
D.W.W..............2004!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb:

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
~ Geogre Carlin

Pretty much sums the last couple of days for me :lol:

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
Doug Ferrari

This is for the certain someone who reads the threads yet doesnt post.....


If you find life plain, boring and unsatisfing its not life's fault.

I like to use this one when someone is bugging the crap out of me.

"Why don't you neutralize some of that weapons-grade stupidity with a nice hot, steaming cup of shut-the-fu**-up."

Every being spends his life
searching for that which he
hopes will make him happy.
Fulfillment lies in finding it.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)

"It's better to die fighting, than to live dying." (translated from the spanish: "Es mejor murie luchando, que vivir murienido")
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos 1839-1903

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us
-E.W. Hoch

We are richer together than when we are apart. Because of what each person brings, our lives are deepened and our vision enlarged....I see in you a piece of heaven never seen before.-------Sheila Walsh

Sometimes, the stinky things start with your butt.
- Tommy Pickles, Rugrats

To my "Pysco Stalker". Take a minute and really read it......

Dont pursue happiness; you'll never catch it that way. Get your mind right and you'll find that happiness was there all along.

I've been reading way TOO many Cartoon & Philosophy articles (which are going to be made into a book).

For example, existentialism:

"It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not."
~ Yakko's Universe, Animaniacs

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your backyard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. ---Henry Ward Beecher

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your backyard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. ---Henry Ward Beecher

SI - this is really great.

from one of my favorite writers...

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative

Oscar Wilde

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

SAVE FERRIS!!!


(sorry, I couldn't resist) :lol:

SAVE FERRIS!!!
:laugh: :laugh:

All around us are friends
who seem to grow together as garden flowers.
Each one contributes a unique scent
and adds a special color to
the memory of spring, summer, and fall
of every new year together.
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
or as sweet-seasoned showers are to
the ground; and for the peace of you,
I hold such strife as 'twixt a miser
and his wealth is found.

William Shakespear

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

- Andre Maurois

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely"

-unknown

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It’s too late when we die
To admit we don’t see eye to eye

- Mike and the Mechanics

"Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night...."

- Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"

Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination ~ George Bernard Shaw

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you." ~ Brendan Behan.

"We are all born mad. Some remain so." ~ Samuel Beckett

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you." ~ Brendan Behan.

ah, I'd change it to '...somebody you love.'

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois


that is sooo true... just what I've been thinking lately.

Socrates ---

The hottest love has the coldest end.

A man ain't no man when a man ain't got no horse,man...The Neon Judgement...

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton
I feel sorry for Charles :)

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

Some people are like Slinkies; not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

:mwaha:

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas

Bogie's got it going on! :*

"When you realize you want to spend The rest of your life with somebody, You want the rest of your life To start as soon as possible." When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life?
-Harley Sorenson


Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
-Oscar Wilde


Art is what you can get away with.
Andy Warhol

this one plays in my head every so often.
(but you have to sing it)
"Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind rule the body? I don't know."
Morrissey

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." A Yale University professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing an overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express).

I am at two with nature.
Woody Allen (1935 - )

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

"You can tune a guitar but ya cant tuna fish " REO Speedwagon

"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose , but ya cant pick your friends nose" Unknown Bald Redneck ? :mwaha:

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you." ~ Brendan Behan.


The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde :violin:

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. - Tennessee Williams

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast" ~ Marlene Dietrich

Many people will walk in
and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave
footprints in your heart.

- Unknown -

OMG..This book "He's Just Not That Into You" is hilarious..here's a couple of qoutes on why guys don't call section of this book..
This is from the "What you should have learned" end of the chapter..

"Busy" is another word for "@hole". "@hole" is another word for the guy you're dating"

"You deserve an F-ing phone call"

Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

Can you tell I'm going through some man problems right now??

"The pain would leave me, I would forget you, and you would never see me again except in a dream. It is sad that the things that we saw in each other are no longer there. It is a shame that we tore each other apart looking for things that we needed deperately but couldn't decribe. It is tragic that we only wanted to give to each other but only stole from ourselves and blamed each other for the emptiness in our lives."

~Henry Rollins

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

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~

It's Better to Have Loved & Lost
Than to Live With the Psycho the
Rest of Your Life!

~saw this on a t-shirt today! :laugh:

"Life is not that complicated. You get up, you go to work, you eat three meals,
you take one good shit, and you go back to bed... what's the f*cking mystery?"

~ George Carlin

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

I probably have to tell a client today 'I Don't Work For Candy'...

"What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands"
C.S. Lewis (British scholar and novelist. 1898-1963)

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

C.S. Lewis (British scholar and novelist. 1898-1963)

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~James Baldwin

"If I'm not back in 5 minutes... wait longer"

- Ace Ventura

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. -Jean de La Fontaine

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
- Chinese Proverb.

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
~Erich Fromm~

It is easier to sing your worries away than to reason them away. Why not sing in the morning? Think of the birds-they are the first to sing each day, and they have fewer worries than anything else in creation.

L.B. Cowman

It is easier to sing your worries away than to reason them away. Why not sing in the morning? Think of the birds-they are the first to sing each day, and they have fewer worries than anything else in creation.

L.B. Cowman

that's because nobody ever sh**s on them :)

these quotes are so good.
(I'm getting too deep now.

I'll be back if I remember a good quote or two.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

"I'm like King Midas in reverse. Everything I touch turns to crap."
-- Anthony Soprano

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
-- Chinese Proverb

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
--Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson

But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

~ Jack Kerouac, 'On the Road'

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

If somebody says you have a problem with ignorance and apathy, just say, "I don't know, and I don't give a sh*t"

Gumpism by Winston Groom

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

A truth that's told with bad intent-
beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Gaylord Nelson

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. -Corita Kent

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
- Zig Ziglar.
American motivational Speaker and Author.

Passion colors all that it touches in it's own hues. -Baltasar Gracian

(can't believe there's someone actually named 'Baltasar'.
(for the Charmed fans ;)

Commitment is the willingness to be uncomfortable! It is the willingness to stay on track even if something is too hard or takes too long!

Denise Austin

"Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.

Aleister Crowley

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius

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

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

-Lao Tzu