LIFE

A survivor or a victim. The choice is yours.
Douglas Adams "LTUAE"

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind.
Douglas Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Brooks Adams

Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our success.
George Burton Adams

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
Charles Allen

As you think, you travel, as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Lane Allen

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said, if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of feeling that feeling anymore.
Tori Amos

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people.
Tori Amos

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
Tori Amos

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe someday she'll be her own.
Tori Amos

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones that don't fit into boxes.
Tori Amos

Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.
Tori Amos

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They choose idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is that the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Ramona Andersen

We have no say over the hand dealt to us in life: but we do have a lot if control over how this hand is played. We are resposible for bringing out the meaning of our own lives in each moment we live. Remember each moment only happens once and can never be retrieved again.
Roberta Anderson

Even a fool know that you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry Anderson -"Night Court"

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished, and pruned, pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Maya Angelou

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

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouith

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
Robert Anthony

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim

Time and again, human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result, we do not experience reality, but merely our concept of it.
Jose Argualles

Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.
Maduro Ash

There are no heroes. . .there are no villians. . . There are only himans; men and women who alternately succeed and fail. If they are on your side and succeed, they are heroes. If they're on the other side, they're villians. Concepts such as good and evil exist only as rationalizations, an artificial logic to mask the true reasons for our feelings. . . No one ever wakes up in the morning and says, "I think I'll go out and do something terrible." Their selections are logical and and beneficial to them. It's only after the fact when things go awry that they are credited with with evil.
Robert L. Asprin

You don't look back along time but down though it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface; sometimes that; sometimes nothing.
Margaret Atwood

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate if it; and this you have the power to resolve at any moment.
Marcus Auralius

Perception is a learned phenomena.
Azure Earth

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach

Anyone desparate enough for suicide. . . should be desparate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: to elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
Richard Bach

Look in a mirror and one thing's for sure; what we see is not who we are.
Richard Bach

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, down-trodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressures, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind, or sacrificial. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.
Richard Bach

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Richard Bach -"The Bridge Across Forever"

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how pleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tradgedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

If you want magic, let go of your armour. Magic is so much stronger than steel.
Richard Bach

Never Doubt what you know.
Richard Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. "Nothing" is the worst thing that can happen to us.
Richard Bach

No one can solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems to be solved.
Richard Bach

What you are achieving is not so important as what you are becoming. The opposite of lonliness is not togetherness, it is intimacy.
Richard Bach

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

Cynicism was ok, bitterness was a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.
Nevada Barr - "Blind Descent"

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. . .I am tempted to think. . .there are no little things.
Bruce Barton

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
James K Beiblman

Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, but the lesson to be learned is always ours.
Melody Beattie

We do not have to involve ourselves in other people's issues.
Melody Beattie

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work
Melody Beattie

The obstacles that you put in your own way can only be removed by those same hands.
Sophia Bedford-Pierce

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benetar

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

Sometimes you go through that little awkward stage where you're kind of growing and changing and tend to get a little withdrawn. I think that's when you do a lot of sould searching.
Jason Bohr

There are no limits to the either time or distance , except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact till it does that, ithardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Unhappy is the land in need of heroes.
Bertolt Brecht

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
J. Brennan

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Brenson

When out eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside of us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
G. Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

Snow is a lot like life. It's cold, wet, and annoying, but if you wait for just the right moment, it can be peaceful, calm, and beautiful.
Rebecca Brown

Truth is within ourselves.
Robert Browning

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness or resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
Paul Brunton

A person should realize that conflict situations between oneself and others are nothing but the effects of conflict situations in one's own soul.
Martin Buber

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl Buck

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl Buck

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time.
Charles Bukouski

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn "The Wonders of Solitude"

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open and so is your heart. And though there are times when your hands may be empty, your heart is always full, and you can always give things out of that.
F. H. Burnett

Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the intrument as you go along.
Samuel Butler

I sometimes wonder whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me -yet sometimes I long for it.
Lord Byron

All you need is deep inside you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. all you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within you, and you will surely find it.
Eileen Caddy

It is a paradox of creative recovery that we must get serious about taking ourselves lightly. We must work at learning how to play.
Julia Cameron

When your heart speaks, take good notes.
Judith Campbell

Nobody realizes that some people spend tremendous amounts of energy merely to be normal.
Camus

For a thought to change the world, it must first change the life of the man who carries it.
Camus

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
"Ender's Game" - Orson Scott Card

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think neccessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good, if it doesn't, it is of no use.
Carlos Casteneda

The fact of the matter is that many children "see". . . Most of those who "see" are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
Carlos Casteneda

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Cervantes

If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent their growing.
Coco Chanel

There are seasons in human affairs, when new depths seem to be in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for these are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.
William Ellery Channing

You must look into people, as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield

A man who moves mountains starts by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. What you most love is what you must wish for in yourself.
D. Chopra

All of us are in bondage to the disorder we create by seeing ourselves as separate and isolated.
D. Chopra

Accept what comes to you totally and completely so that you can appeciate it, learn from it, and let it go.
D. Chopra

My tormentor is myself left over from yesterday.
D. Chopra

Anytime choice seems to be cut off, illusion is operating.
D. Chopra

A skeptic harbors an idealist who has suffered the pain of disillusionment one too many times.
D. Chopra

To think forms patterns inside ourselves that are just as complex, fleeting, and rich in their diversity as is reality itself. Thinking is no less than our own mirror of the world.
D. Chopra

A shift in awareness is the first change.
D. Chopra

In the flow of life, destruction never has the last word; creation brings a pheonix out of the ashes every time.
D. Chopra

When you realize you have control over any interpretation you place upon your body, an enormously liberating idea begins to dawn: the body is on your side.
D. Chopra

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
Agatha Christie

If you're going through hell, kep going.
Winston Churchill

If you can find a path without obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

The great mistake most people make is the assumption that most people are sane. I know very few people who are sane -- and only one man in my life who was really grown up. All the other people are terribly recognizable as kids who have learned grown-up ways of behaving.
John Cleese

And it's me who is my enemy, me who beats me up, me who makes the mountains, me who strips my confidence, and it's me who is too shy, to ask for the thing I love.
Paula Cole

No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It takes time for the absent to assure their true shape in our thoughts.
Colette

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucious

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
J. Conrad

There is no need to recriminate yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.
Douglas Copeland "Conversations with God"

Nothing is stable. Nothing absolute. All is fluid and changeable. There is an endless becoming.
Benjamin N. Cordozon

You are not going to save anyone else, but you can gain wisdom from them. Every person has a lesson to teach you if you can just listen long enough.
Jennifer Dawn Crispin

The eyes of men speak words the tongue cannot pronounce.
Crow Proverb

To destroy is always the first step in creation.
e. e. cummings

To be nobody -but -yourself -in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie

My teacher said to me, "The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside."
Zen Master Dahzu

Everybody sees what you appear to be. Some realize what you are, few realize who you are.
Daniel

Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science . . . the beginning of wisdom . . . is: I do not know."
Data (TNG)

Discovering consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Bernard De Fontanelle

You have to endure what you can't change.
Marie De France

No trumpets sound when important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes De Mille

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
De Mussat

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
B. Disreali

Feel the now.
Annie Dillard

Luck is being ready for the chance.
James Frank Dobie

If you cannot find the truth right where you stand, where do you expect to find it?
Dogen

There are certain chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the moment, before a word is spoken.
Dostoevsky

Mediocrity knows nothing higher that itelf, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Authur Conan Doyle

Practice being gentle, respectful, and loving toward the life force in all things. . . Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison of the problem.
Wayne Dyer

Our spirit knows when we are on the right path. When we make a decision that we feel good about, we receive it as energy that propels us along a particular path. . . Our passion is the energy through which we save our purpose. When we serve our purpose, we feel our passion. By following our passion, we will tap into the energy god gives us to serve our purpose.
Betty J. Eadie "The Awakening Heart"

Often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.
The Eagles

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is unreal and temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Wright Edelman

The right to search for truth implies also a duty one must conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
Einstein

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Einstein

The thinking that we are has brought us to where we have already been. In order to go somewhere else, we must think in a different way.
Einstein

The tragedy of life is not death, but what dies in the hearts of men while they live.
Einstein

Sometimes one pays the most for the things one gets for nothing.
Einstein

There comes a time when the mind speaks a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Einstein

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion.
Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Einstein

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Elliot

Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.
Carmelia Elliot

The end is in the beginning, and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison

When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson

Every spirit builds a house, and beyond this house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Know that this world exists for you.
R. W. Emerson

A man should lean to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of birds and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
R. W. Emerson

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
M. C. Escher

Is there a song inside of you
That you tried to forget
Like your fake ID and your mom's cigarettes
Does it take you back, is the vision intense
You and me in Shriner's park, trying to make some sense.
Melissa Ethridge

I wish you not happiness, but strength to bear your fate.
Cordelia Evardson "Burned Child Seeks the Fire"

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Faust

The cream of this life is always imprompu. The chance walk,: the unexpected visit: the unpremeditated journey: the unsought conversation or acquaintence.
Fanny Fern

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconcieved purposes, but as the gradual discovering and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field

Soon after a hard decision, something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. hjolding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.
R. I. Fitzhenry

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzsimmons

Life is simply a matter of concentration; you are what you set out to be. You are a composite of the things you say, the books you read, the thoughts you think, the company you keep, and the things you desire to become.
B. C. Forbes

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Those things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Miles Franklin

To understand is to forgive everything.
French Proverb

If there's one thing I know about destiny it is that you can't count on it forever.
Kinky Friedman

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Sam Foss

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

Sometimes one must change or die.
Neil Gaiman

It's sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.
Neil Gaiman "The Sandman: Fables and Reflections"

Sometimes I supsect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That this is the way of life, from the All-Highest to the meanest creature in creation. . . But whether this is the case or no, it is still a worthy thing to open cages. It is still a virtuous act to face the imprisoned.
Morpheus - "The Sandman: The Wake" Neil Gaiman

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but never let us lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Ghandi

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

One may not reach the dawn, save by the path of night.
Kahlil Gibran

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear of them.
Andre Gide

I walk in the air between the rain
through myself and back again
Where? I don't know.
Gin Blossoms

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Goethe

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Goethe

Treat people as what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.
Goethe

All the knowledge I posess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.
Goethe

One never goes so far as when one soesn't know where one is going.
Goethe

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it.
Mary Norton Gordon

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person - not only changed, but for the better.
Arthur Gordon

When we live in a place too long, we grow dull. We don't notice what is around us.
Natalie Goldberg

A lot of guilt comes from feeling that we have more influence than we really do.
Dan Gottleib

What most people tend to forget is that we have an unbeleiveable control over our destiny.
Bill Gove

Once in a while a piece of old business surfaces, some item on life's agenda you thought you'd dealt with years ago. Suddenly, it's there again at the top of the page, competing for your attention despite the fact that you're completely unprepared for it.
Sue Grafton "O is for Outlaw"

Bromidic though it may sound, some questions "don't" have answers, which isa a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
Katherine Graham

A mistake is simply another way of doing thiongs.
Katherine Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and there is only one you in all of time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham

People persue things . . . As soon as they have them they run away from them. But what they run away from stays with them, dragging along behind like an ever-lengthening cloak.
Morpheus - "Masquerade and High Water" -Colin Greenland

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