"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
John Steinbeck
"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here."
Finley Peter Dunne (as "Mr. Dooley," a character in Dunne's newspaper column)
"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
Mildred McAfee
"To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life."
Malcolm Forbes
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"What we think, we become."
Buddha
"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."
Sara Caldwell
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
"To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world – that I am ale to change it in positive ways."
Maxine Hong Kingston
"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."
Bernard de Fontenelle
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
Doris Lessing
"Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch."
Molly Ivins
"The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes."
Amy Grant
"What we love to do we find time to do."
John L. Spalding
"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
Mignon McLaughlin
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
"A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something."
Anon.
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
Ann Landers
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
Aldous Huxley
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
Diane Arbus
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
Jean Kerr
"Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength."
Eric Hoffer
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."
O. Carl Simonton
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
William F. Halsey
"Pain is the root of knowledge."
Simone Weil
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
Lady Bird Johnson
"Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."
Sydney Smith
"Speak when you're angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
Laurence Peter
"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat."
Harold Wilson
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything."
Katharine Hepburn
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
Toni Morrison
"I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change . . . . I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back . . . ."
Erica Jong
"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
Doris Lessing
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
Raymond Linquist
"To change and to improve are two different things."
German proverb
"You are all you will ever have for certain."
June Havoc
"Poverty is no shame, but being ashamed of it is."
Franklin
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Break the chain. Don't let another woman inherit your last spoiled-brat lover like a pair of uncomfortable shoes you took back to the store. If he doesn't get it, let him know. Walk on by."
from "A Woman's Worth," by Marianne Williamson
"The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us. It means remembering that we are the daughters of God, and daughters of God don't brake for jerks."
from "A Woman's Worth," by Marianne Williamson
"We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree."
Charles Caleb Colton
"The most important thing I have learned from Tori is that I have a voice. Even if no one else wants to hear it, I have to listen to it."
Melissa Caldwell of the Tori-zine Really Deep Thoughts
"I was 23. "I didn't appreciate life then like I do now."
Tori Amos
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Charles Dudley Warner
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
Cynthia Heimel, Author
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Homosexuals, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Homosexual. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Pastor Martin Niemoller
"A life without glitter is no life at all."
Toni Colette (on the Tonite Show w/Jay Leno)
"I just don't have time for the nervous breakdown I deserve."
movie quote: "Something to Talk About"
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"Today makes a difference tomorrow."
MOPS--Mothers of Preschoolers
"I'm going paranmormally psychic with just a hint of sage."
Phil
"You have to love me, you're under contract."
Phil
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
"You can't just devistate me and kick me out! You're not my lover!"
Jack, "Will & Grace"
"Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed."
Laurell K. Hamilton
"My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state."
Seal
"Everything really is beautiful if you choose to see it that way."
Seal
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
Albert Einstein
"Love is like math -- a simple idea but it can get complicated."
~unknown
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"I want to know God's thoughts."
Albert Einstein
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?
How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"
Linda Ellerbee
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Marilyn vos Savant
"An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true."
Doug Larsen, United Feature Syndicate
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being proven right or pleasantly surprised."
George F. Will
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
Albert Einstein
"Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy."
Albert Einstein
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
"The world is such a slut. She promises herself to everyone."
Edgar Allen Poe
"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go."
James Duffecy
"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."
Christina Rossetti
"Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever."
Chinua Achebe
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi
"This ain't no game. It's a live-action thrill ride!"
Super Mario Bros. (the movie)
"I am doing something. I'm staying alive. That's all that matters in the end."
Methos, from the TV show "Highlander"
"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
Joseph Joubert
"Bottom line is, even if you seem 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are."
Whistler, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Becoming 1)
"Be ashamed to die until you've won some victory for humankind."
Horace Mann, 1859
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Earl Wilson
"Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history."
Ralph Barton Perry, American author and educator (1876-1957)
"It's ok to be scared. It's ok to feel weak sometimes. As long as your moving forward and your trying to be strong, you make other people around you strong."
Scott Stapp, lead singer of Creed
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. "
Confucius
"So, what is it about cocaine that makes it so great?" "Well, it intensifies your personality." "But...what if you're an asshole?"
Bill Cosby
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