1001) "How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?"-Jonathan Larson, Rent
1002) "The opposite of war isn't peace....it's creation."-Jonathan Larson, Rent
1003) "Cause baby, I got something to stand for/ I got somewhere we can go/ I just need someone to stand with/ It ain't no good this being alone."-Amy Ray, "Chiapas Bound"
1004) "Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls."-Bruce Coville, "Am I Blue?"
1005) "In the summer there is Maria. She is the other person I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call her up and say, 'Come here and live with me, in this cold place.' But we are summer friends. There is a rule, it seems, that summer friends don't get together in the wintertime. Now, sitting here waiting for her, I realize that I have never seen Maria in a winter coat, and for some reason this makes me sadder than anything else in the world."-Jaqueline Woodson
1006) "I laughed and punched him gently and collected my stuff. Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next."-Lois Lowry
1007) "It's important to have voice; it's more important to use it."-Amy Ray
1008) "All changes have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die one life before we can enter unto another."-Anatole France
1009) "It has gotten to the point where if I had to choose between falling in love and reading a book about falling in love...I'd choose the book."- Nikos Kazananski
1010) "Likely or not, it's a dream that we keep/ And at odds with our senses we'll find/ That if faith is the answer, we've already reached it/ And the spirit's a sign/ That it's only a matter of time..."-Dream Theater
1011) "If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose."-Jack Handy, "Deep Thoughts"
1012) "Things must happen when it is time for them to happen, a quest may not simply be abandoned. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story." "But what if there isn't a happy ending at all?" "There are no happy endings because nothing ever ends."-Smendrick and Molly in The Last Unicorn
1013) "You can talk a great philosophy,/ but if you can't be kind to people/ everyday then it doesn't mean/ that much to me."-Ani DiFranco
1014) "And where does magic come from?/ I think that magic's in the learning."-Dar Williams, "The Christians and the Pagans"
1015) "There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello."-Amy Ray
1016) "It's like trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists/ That love is like falling and falling is like this."-Ani DiFranco, "Falling is Like This"
1017) "Ronnie approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life."-E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
1018) "Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form..."-E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
1019) "When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god--not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her."-E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
1020) "...she was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person."-E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
1021) "'Why can't we be friends now?' said the other, holding him affectionately. 'It's what I want. It's what you want.' But the horses didn't want it--they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, 'No, not yet,' and the sky said, 'No, not there.'"-E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
1022) "What will you risk for what you believe?-- and what is your belief worth if you will not risk anything in its defense?"-Michael Kube-McDowell
1023) "Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity."-J.C.R. Licklider in 1964
1024) "You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes."-Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
1025) "I am more than I know myself to be."
1026) "That's a paradox, which means I don't understand it, but it does seem to be true."-David Williams
1027) "That which fire does not burn, it hardens."-Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray
1028) "Why do I feel like I'm living in a great game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in a place where everyone is blinded by ideals and misguided by society?"-Jennifer d'Arcy
1029) "Insist upon yourself. Be original."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
1030) "Character is what you are in the dark."-Lord John Whorfin, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"
1031) "Why kill yourself? Life will do it for you."
1032) "Progress is not an accident, but a necessity...It is a part of nature."-Herbert Spencer
1033) "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."-Alfred North Whitehead
1034) "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."-Elbert Hubbard
1035) "Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."-Edward Shepherd Mead
1036) "...man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."-John F. Kennedy
1037) "Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."-James Magary
1038) "Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing."-Emily Saliers
1039) "...science and violence turned silence to rage."-Emily Saliers, "Caramia"
1040) "Sometimes, when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."-A. A. Milne
1041) "It's not who you love. It's how."-Kevin Smith, "Chasing Amy"
1042) "Different types of dangerous lives--You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do."-Nietzsche
1043) "Your actions will follow you full circle round,/the higher the leap, I said,/ the harder the ground!"-Amy Ray
1044) "No law can make you love someone if nature doesn't care."-Sonia Rutstein
1045) "A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."
1046) "You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song."-Emily Saliers
1047) "One of the basic things which I was a long time in realizing, and which I am still learning, is that when an activity feels as though it is valuable or worth doing, it is worth doing. Put another way, I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect. All of my professional life I have been going in directions which others thought were foolish, and about which I have had many doubts myself. But I have never regretted moving in directions which 'felt right,' even though I have often felt lonely or foolish at the time...Experience is, for me, the highest authority...Neither the Bible nor the prophets--neither Freud nor research--neither the revelations of God nor man--can take precedence over my own experience."-Carl Rogers
1048) "Empathetic understanding...is exceedingly rare in our lives. We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."-Carl Rogers
1049) "Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here."-Amy Ray
1050) "I walk like a woman and talk like a man. I said I am who the fuck I am..."-Melissa Ferrick
1051) "don't critisize what you can't understand."-Bob Dylan
1052) "Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it"-Aristotle
1053) "There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness."-Cicero
1054) "You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere."
1055) "God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile./ God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd/ I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'"-Dar Williams, "Alleluia"
1056) "Well, the light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness to you/ As the garbage trucks came bustling through their rounds/ You stared at the pictures on your wall and all the postcards from your friends/ As you heard the birds and old familiar sounds/ And that's when you knew this world can't be saved, only discovered/ And you knew things could be different than before/ And you will not be alone anymore."-Dar Williams
1057) "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on."-Led Zeppelin
1058) "I would not leave you in times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are."-Billy Joel, "Just The Way You Are"
1059) "Sail on silver, girl, sail on high. Your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way. See how they shine, and, oh, if you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down. Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind."-Simon & Garfunkel
1060) "It sucks when you try your best, and your best sucks."-Andrea Lipman
1061)" Division between the peoples will disappear that honored day/ And though oceans lie between us, lifted candles light the way/ Half will join their hands by moonlight,/ The rest under a rising sun/ As underneath the sun and moon, a ritualed wailing has begun."-Ferron
1062) "She's a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."-Toni Morrison, Sula
1063) "And by and by Christopher Robin came to an end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop."-A.A. Milne
1064) "hey middle ground a place between up and down she could be safe and sound oh to know middle ground"-mary chapin carpenter
1065) "Remember no man is a failure who has friends."-Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life
1066) "I have this theory that if we're told we're bad/ Then that's the only idea we'll ever have/ But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty/ Someday we will become what we see/ 'Cause anyone can start a conflict/ it's harder yet to disregard it/ I'd rather see the world from another angle/ We are everyday angels"-Jewel Kilcher
1067) "She's searching through the stations for an unfamiliar song. And she pictures all the places where she knows she still belongs."-Sheryl Crow
1068) "I do believe that not everything is gonna be the way you think it ought to be it seems like every time I try to make it right it all comes down on me please say honestly you won't give up on me and I shall believe."-Sheryl Crow, "I Shall Believe"
1069) "For the life of me I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise for the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen."-The Verve Pipe, "The Freshmen"
1070) "...Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough."-Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
1071) "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely...Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth."-Mark Twain
1072) "While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."-Audre Lorde
1073) "Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something far greater than you are--call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort in your body and psyche. Therefore, anxiety symptoms may be regarded as meaningful communication from a powerful force within you that wants you to be yourself."-Joyce Ashley
1074) "There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course, a quiet conscience."-Euripedes
1075) "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."-Socrates
1076) "I do not understand; I pause; I examine."-Montaigne
1077) "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."-Bacon
1078) "An error is more dangerous the more truth it contains."-Amiel
1079) "Naming can limit as well as empower."-Loraine Hutchins
1080) "...I see now that whatever your situation, someone will be attracted to exactly that situation."-Victoria Woodard
1081) "...maybe/ love is like water/ and when you find out/ you need it, who cares/ where it comes from,/ or maybe/ everyone is a well/ just waiting for me/ to send my ladle down."-Ronda Slater
1082) "To stop at any one metaphor and establish it as dogma is to put the mind in chains."-the Dischordians
1083) "But the tides are always shifting, the land is never still/ You cannot tame a river and bend it to your will/ Boundaries I believed in are melting into sand/ Now it's me and my own footsteps starting over once again/ But they say there's only room for one kind..."-Betsy Rose, "Room For You"
1084) "I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me."-Gertrude Stein
1085) "Labels are always limiting because they conjure up different feelings to individuals based on their own experiences. If we identify ourselves with standard definitions, we shortchange ourselves, painting an incomplete picture of who we really are."-Naomi Tucker , Bi Any Other Name
1086) "There's always someone to put you down no matter what you do. So ultimately you have to base your choices on your own experiences and beliefs as well as on the deep feeling and inner needs which influence each person's belief."-Dajenya, Bi Any Other Name
1087) "Most people in our society feel the need to sort people and things into categories and to give those categories labels: male and female, homesexual and hetereosexual, progressive and conservative. This compulsion to classify is a natural part of the human thought proces; we are constantly bombarded with so much input that we must have some way to organize it in order to understand our experience. As natural as this tendency is, is also presents a danger. We should be cautious that the categories we construct are not overly confining or resistant to change, and that the labels we use are not degrading or judgmental. Categories and labels are useful tools, but we should regard them as tools only and not as ends in themselves. We must not be afraid to revise or abolish a classification scheme or a set of labels when it has become more harmful than beneficial."-Lucy Friedland and Liz A. Highleyman, Bi Any Other Name
1088) "I have always felt/ alienated from words/ attacked by them/ silenced by them/ ignored by them/ words have never been fast friends./ I listen to the voices/ that come from my heart/ and scream from my guts/ I am more/ than what you see/ I say this only to myself/ sure no one will listen/ and terrified everyone will..."-Lani Kaahumanu, Bi Any Other Name
1089) "It is not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it."
1090) "Jaret remembered a day in the first grade when she had come home in tears because her teacher, Mrs. Ackroyd, had dashed her hopes of becoming a garbage collector. 'You can be anything you want, kid,' Kay [Jaret's mother] had said. 'You tell Mrs. Ackroyd that there are no limitations in this house.'"-Sandra Scoppettone, Happy Endings Are All Alike
1091) "If I would have known that the stars always/ died beautiful I would have run toward the rockets/ and burnt the churches/ Fully developed in the possibility/ that I would stand forever young/ in the mechanics of night/ with my eyes turning revolutions/ stuttering apologies for a drunken urban accident./ Inquiries in the daze ask/ Do you know HOW TO CRACK SPINES/ OR BUILD EYES?/ It's the same as a city, the neon blood will bleed./ BOY!!! I tell you to be safe bury the footprints of/ your ancestry deep beneath the asphalt/ and dance with yourself at dawn on those/ pregnant praying disregarded streets./ In this madness you swear you won't be remembered/ but do promise to revisit the ghost of your past/ once before your rebirth./ Mothers tend to overreact when their children DON'T/ COME HOME./ We must unite all the desperate words dangling on/ the tips of our tongues into a mighty cry./ We can't allow the night to slip away/ WITHOUT bidding it adieu/ WITHOUT thanking it for sheltering us when we were our most naked/ and least colorful/ THIS IS TRUE LOVE FOR THE SHADOWS/ I can't hide./ I will save my hour of insanity to be eaten/ with the wine martyrs./ The sun has hold of me thus I pray the prayer/ that posseses the eternal amen that I won't suffer too long in the day./ Why has the king sent me to slaughter?/ WE MUST RECOMMUNE with all the dissidents of the hour/ so as to better understand all these unsatisfactory ends./ It shall be written of us that we propagated/ once more at ancient insane brothels, sacrificed/ our spirits at dusty alters,/ and knew it was our sisters song that haunted/ us FIRST when the sandman bit our swollen pride./ We must find something new in our space-aged/ television raped lives to worship,/ these imp gods aren't giving us the collective security/ we desired. Falling short of impossibility is the great disintegration./ We aren't mad./ Let's catch the setting sun for we have miles to go before the road gives./ We must do this and move further/ beyond that illusive rest invoking the/ depths of the grave and letting out the dogs/ all the while of OUR JOURNEY./ for the children who cry tears of satin/ green we must for barefoot prophets turned servants/ we must for the sake of our kidnapped youth we must/ do these things and..../ We're still moving/ there are no stop signs in this chapel!/ Thus at its origin is a recycled end. Where/ are the lords of salvation here?/ Who will we look to now that/ the myths of our yesterday/ have faltered in their duties/ It's apparent that the toy soldiers we/ once sought now lay dismantled in/ the sewers so certainly the/ whores and vagabonds will inherit/ the keys to the kingdom/ While we who remain without/ our promised thrones or feast/ dig through the shelves to find/ the perfection we live without./ In ths glory will raise the sunshine of/ our anguish, the emergence/ of a purer redemption and a cleaner virgin supplication./ HOW LONG HAVE WE SUFFERED IN THIS DAY?/ We are now the cloth faced broken/ reflections of an hour glass millenium, but/ how well we don our floppy fitting dysfunction./ The meat of our brothers/ now belongs to a more precious thing of/ which we can't recognize/ their bones are held resolved in wrinkled/ hands and tangled roots. But we never engage in ceremonies/ of lament even though are tongues are bloodshot/ from long goodbyes./ As it is I would love to jump backwards into the tempest and die in the right/ hand of a manufactured deity, considering how sweetly my affections have/ left me./ There is so much frustration in the confusion./ I've forgotten the chants who will bring me home."-Ashley Tillery, "US NIGHT"
1092) "You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication."-Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine
1093) "It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on."-Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine
1094) "Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?"-Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine
1095) "She has a brief acquaintance with this geography herself, but getting worked up about it does no good at all. Just leaves her sitting here all turned around, looking forward to the past."-Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine
1096) "When someone dies, though it's no longer possible, it often comes up that there are still a slew of things you need to ask them. Ask, and tell as well. The things I want to tell dead people. . . ."-Jan Carr, Harem Wish
1097) "And in the end, none of these details matter--not the whodunnit, the what they did, or why. Because the details of a story, whatever that story's complexion, always add up to the same thing. All through time and every time, all a person aches for is to be allowed. 'You mean love, of course.' 'That too.'"-Jan Carr, Harem Wish
1098) "'Then where are you going in life?' he demanded. A person can get tired of everybody bugging her about where she's going. To be, Dad. I'm going to be."-Jan Carr, Harem Wish
1099) "Mothers tell your children/Be quick you must be strong/Life is full of wonder/Love is never wrong..."-Melissa Etheridge
1100) "There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace."-Alice Walker