901) "I didn't say I was gay. I said I was in love."-Evie in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
902) "It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."-Henry David Thoreau
903) "What you are achieving is not as important as what you are becoming. The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it is intimacy."-Richard Bach
904) "Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs."-Toni Morrison, Sula
905) "They did not believe death was accidental--life might be, but death was deliberate. They did not believe Nature was ever askew--only inconvenient...They knew anger well but not despair, and they didn't stone sinners for the same reason they didn't commit suicide--it was beneath them."-Toni Morrison, Sula
906) "'When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you.' 'I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.'"-Toni Morrison, Sula
907) "She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and never could be--for a woman."-Toni Morrison, Sula
908) "We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other."-Coretta Scott King
909) "Nothing is, everything is becoming."-Heraclitus
910) "No man can step into the same river twice."-Heraclitus
911) "The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations."-Raymond B. Cattell
912) "Humor necessitates the ability to laugh at what one cherishes, including oneself. Persons who are not sure of themselves see nothing funny about jokes directed at them or what they believe."-B. R. Hergenhahn
913) "Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy."-Gordon Allport
914) "Life is too short so we must generalize."-Gordon Allport
915) "It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."-Toni Morrison, Sula
916) "The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over."-Toni Morrison, Sula
917) "Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine."-Toni Morrison, Sula
918) "You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps beating, just the same."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
919) "It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened..."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
920) "For as much as the iron chambers of my heart hate to disclose, I need people."-MJ
921) "Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear."-Pop Swatch box
922) "Of all the forces in the universe known to man, love is probably the most mentioned and undoubtebly the least understood."-Pop Swatch box
923) "There will never be another now--I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me--I'll make the most of myself."
924) "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
925) "It's impossible to fail totally if you dare to try."
926) "Tough times never last...but tough people do!"
927) "Oh honey, it does no good to hate. It'll do nothing but turn your heart into a bitter root. People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
928) "If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
929) "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."-William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
930) "...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent."-Amy Ray
931) "It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who _can_ be ill-natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?"-Emily Bronte
932) "It seems that college kills any sort of ambition that you walked into college with."-Veronica Tom
933) "And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole."-Dar Williams, "The Ocean"
934) "the choice is yours to make, time is your to take./ some dive into the sea, some toil upon the stone./ to live is to fly, low and high,/ so, shake the dust off of your wings, sleep out of your eye."-T. Van Zandt
935) "Everyone needs a little love and encouragement sometimes...Everyone likes to be reminded of how wonderful they are and how much they matter....so speak up. Please, after you read this, go remind at least one person how special she or he is. Do it more than once if you want. Remind lots of people. Compliment a stranger's festive hat or whistle a tune for someone who's feeling down. And if you're feeling down yourself, do it anyway.....sometimes making someone else feel good is the best thing you can do for yourself. Oh, and remind yourself too. That you love yourself, and that you're special. Because it's true, and the more you keep saying it the easier it is to remember. Loving ourselves and loving each other builds the community that makes life all worthwhile."-Audrey Beth Stein
936) "How easy to talk tolerance; how difficult to achieve."
937) "There's a world of trouble/Trying to take its turn/ I can hear it shaking underground/And half a dozen lessons/ I might never learn/ Not until them troubles come around."-Gillian Welch
938) "There's a crowd of people harbored in each person/ There are so many roles that we play."- Ani DiFranco
939) "I always feel I have to take a stand, and there's always someone on hand to hate me for standing there/ I always feel I have to open my mouth, and every time I do, I offend someone somewhere..."-Ani DiFranco, "What If No One's Watching"
940) "There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon."
941) "Sometimes you have to grow farther apart to keep growing together."
942) "A friend is a gift you give yourself."-Robert Louis Stevenson
943) "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,/ I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;/ I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as/ you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."-Edgar A. Guest
944) "When we are grown we'll smile and say we had no cares in childhoood's day--But we'll be wrong... 'Twill not be true. I've this much care... I care for you."
945) "Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become the best of friends."
946) "Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend."-Longfellow
947) "Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile."-Allison Poler
948) "though dreams can be decieving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart."-Fiona Apple
949) "...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often."-Marilyn vos Savant
950) "There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
951) "If language were liquid/ It would be rushing in/ Instead here we are/ In a silence more eloquent/ Than any word could ever be"-Suzanne Vega
952) "They say it isn't real when I say that I love you but I am red and the rest of the world is white. Who is there to tell me that it just isn't right that I am red and the rest of the world is white? And do you understand that loves sees through many colours and do you understand that love is limitless and I can love...anybody because I can."-Laura Ricker, "I Am Red"
953) "and it's really a great feeling, to know that someone's attracted to you. it's funny how often we hesitate, afraid that we'll be misread...it's really too bad that people so often think good things about others but what we hear is all the more often bad."-Audrey Beth Stein
954) "And it is still true, no matter how old you are--when you go out into the world, it's best to hold hands and stick together."-Robert Fulghum
955) "True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."- Charles Caleb Colton
956) "There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon."
957) "Sometimes you have to grow farther apart to keep growing together."
958) "A friend is a gift you give yourself."-Robert Louis Stevenson
959) "We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade."-Caroline Norton
960) "Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend."-Bill Watterson
961) "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,/ I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;/ I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,/ as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."-Edgar A. Guest
962) "When we are grown we'll smile and say/ we had no cares in childhoood's day-/ But we'll be wrong... 'Twill not be true./ I've this much care... I care for you."
963) "Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend."-Longfellow
964) "Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile."-Allison Poler
965) "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"-Stephen Levine
966) "How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new..."-Jean Piaget
967) "coming out is such a pain in the ass. it pisses me off, straight people don't have to come out. why can't everyone just assume everyone is bisexual, and then be done with it. enough of it already. everyone has to come out, and it's a big deal, ya know? when it isn't, well it is, but it shouldn't be, everyone should be able to love who they want to without having to explain it. ugh. the frustration."
968) "scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?"-John Rzeznik, "Name"
969) "Education is power. Give a girl an education and you've educated a family, a community, a nation, the world."
970) "The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician."-Sidney J. Harris
971) "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
972) "...it was one of those statements that everybody says but nobody actually believes like 'God is everywhere.' It was just a handle to wind up the tongue with."-Zora Neale Hurstonn, Their Eyes Were Watching God
973) "It was all according to the way you see things. Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships."-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
974) "Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain't got nothin' tuh do wid love."-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
975) "...love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore"-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
976) "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."-Voltaire
977) "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is."-Albert Einstein
978) "Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."-Blaise Pascal
979) "So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us."-Emily Saliers, "History of Us"
980) "And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."-Douglas Coupland
981) "you won't find it here/ seek and ye shall find/ you may keep searching for a lifetime/ and never know that you were blind/...locked into this journey,/ forward or around,/ don't feel disconcerted if you lose your way./ Just take another path around/ and you might find solid ground."-Julie Goldman, "Here"
982) "I am angry and I want you to see it I am hurt and I want you to burn, I am bitter and I want you to taste it, you are ignorant and you need to learn. There's no gut in the pit of my stomach, there's no life in front of my eyes, I want to tell you to shut up, I wish that people like you would just die. I can't remember ever feeling so lonely, I'm at the very end of my line, if I could close my eyes and you would disappear, then life would be fine. Cover my face with a paper bag, cut out two eyes to see through, you can look but you won't see me, staring right back at you, and all of my friends and all of my lovers, be a part of my plan, I'm going to be the paper bag princess, and you won't know abwho I am."-Laura Ricker, "Paper Bag Princess"
983) "Runaway, cover my tracks. Look ahead cause there's no turning back. Gotta run when you can't hide from all of the things you're feeling inside, runaway...you learn from people, you learn from the past. Look to the future cause now just won't last. Eternity's so much longer than life I'm gonna walk the narrow gonna do it right runaway."-Laura Ricker, "Runaway"
984) "I witnessed the earth as it turned today/ saw the sky turn 50 colors of grey/ and the trees that were green and tall all turned to brown/ when I watched today as the sky fell down./ Sky is falling and no one did see/ Man in the moon hid his face from me/ And all of the sailors are lost in the sea/ Sky fell down and our souls were set free./ I imagine that now I'll imagine the sky/ like I used to paint it. Could I even try/ to see clouds again as they floated today?/ They all turned to crimson and faded away./I wished on a star last night 'fore it fell/ I dreamed of its glory and thought about hell,/ 'cause if hell's made of fire, it's pretty like that,/ and that's where I'll end up when my life goes black./ I witnessed the sun as it faded to grey/ It fell into the ocean, creating great waves/ flowing over the land and washing it clean./ Sky fell down and our souls were set free."-Julie Golman, "Sky is Falling"
985) "But this is my gig! This is where I play! My name is written out there in chalk. You know, you can't just erase...chalk."-Phoebe on "Friends"
986) "Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for you but it's right for me..."-Sarah McLachlan, "Elsewhere"
987) "Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions."-John Irving
988) "The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."-American Proverb
989) "Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed."-Thomas Harris
990) "It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life."-Bryce Courteney
991) "There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today."-Jonathon Larson, Rent
992) "i am not an angry girl/ but it seems like/ i've got everyone fooled/ everytime I say something/ they find hard to hear/ they chalk it up to my anger/ never to their own fear."-Ani DiFranco, "Not a Pretty Girl"
993) "I sink into the waterproof seat/ and watch the single raindrops on the window/ fight the glass to get inside./ I spot one drop that joins another/ and together they let go to fly off into the night./ And I wonder why those physics/ don't apply to love/ as salty raindrops drip alone,/ absorbing into my coat."-Julie Hill
994) "By the time it came to the edge of the forest the stream had grown up so that it was almost a river and being grown up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going and it said to itself, 'There is no hurry. We shall get there someday.' But all the little streams went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late."-A.A. Milne
995) "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's 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
996) "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."-Christopher Morley
997) "Do you need a reason?/ Somewhere there is a backyard./ You know what it looks like./ You know what it sounds like./ You know the parties you have had there./ The things you have done there./ The things you wanted to do but never had the nerve./ It knows you./ And you know it./ You don't have to wear what other people wear,/ Or think what they think./ Or look the way they look./ You should be yourself because that is scary enough./ Smell like you smell./ Look like you look./ Jump off a bridge/ If there is more that 15 feet of water/ And you know how to swim really really well./ Be yourself,/ No matter how strange/ Or frightening/ Or disturbing/ That self may be./ Believe in something./ True love, maybe./ Intelligent life on this planet, perhaps./ Yourself./ Your mother./ Your father's cooking./ Something./ Labels are for jars,/ And you are not a jar./ Your life,/ As far as you know,/ Is your own./ Anything can happen./Will happen/ Does happen. If you have the nerve./ You do."-forward
998) "My BF rocks!"-Jan Stevens
999) "Long, blond locks/ do not fall daintily against my shoulders/ And my limbs are not/ sketally slender and attractive/ Nor do I have a cloned button nose/ sitting upon an artificially altered visage./ I cannot mock the nightengale/ And I will never athletically conquer/ ANYTHING./ True, I am none to compare to the/ angelic swan,/ Yet beneath my clumsy albatross wings,/ my four eyes,/ and the frog forever jammed in my throat,/ I have rediscovered/ the everlasting charm, grace, and beauty/ of being/ a little different."-Caroline Reiter, "Unique"
1000) "My foundations/ are in the universe/ my spirit is univeral/ despite all pressures against me/ to choose sides/ black or white/ man or woman/ gay or straight/ I am still a child/ and an old woman/ my blood is red/ my choice is not to choose/ I cannot choose/ I am the exception to the rule of choice/ I am one and all without exception/ I defy the rules/ I am me."-Dajenya