1901) "I will not let my dress size determine my self worth."
1902) "A baby's smile is the rainbow at the end of a rainy day."
1903) "True love is always shattered by reality."
1904) "Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong."-Melissa Etheridge
1905) "Stupidity killed the cat. Curiousity was framed."
1906) "Life is only as hard as our lessons need to be to learn them."-Brandy Higgins
1907) "The apathy of time laughs in my face, you say, 'Each life has its place.'"-Emily Saliers, "Virgina Woolf"
1908) "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."-Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"
1909) "The greatbigbeautifulsecret is that the sequel to lost is found."-Shelley Miller
1910) "Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival."-Rene Dubos
1911) "Standing here, the old man said to me, 'Long before these crowded streets, here stood my dreaming tree.' Below it he would sit, for hours at a time. Now progress takes away, what forever took to find....The dreaming tree has died."-Dave Matthews
1912) "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."-Semisonic
1913) "We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change."
1914) "Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place."
1915 "You don't marry someone you can live with--you marry the person whom you cannot live without."
1916) "Alll great things are decided not by machines or gadgets, but by willpower. Whoever has it will finally prevail."-Winston Churchill
1917) "When you find you're criticizing yourself, STOP. Ask the critic in you what it's so afraid of. Then do what you can do help this old and frightened part feel safe enough to be comfortable with you being just how you are being right now."-Robyn Posin
1918) "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced."-James Baldwin
1919) "there are only three states/ between where i am/ and where you are/ not so far/ if you're still there/ just on the other side/ of forgiveness/ patience/ and understanding/ either one of us/ could reach across the distance/ if we tried/ but your arms are around another and my face is turned away/ though my heart keeps looking back/ not caring if it's turned to salt/ the punishment my eyes bear/ falling victim to a slow white creeping/ that paints your face on retinas/ now otherwise blind."-Jennifer Dawn Crispin
1920) "my mind gets swirled sometimes/ between wants and dontwants/ contentedness and melancholy/ and then a high pressure system rolls in/ and twin tornados blow everything to pieces/ i love thy neighbor a little too literally/ i could fall in love with anyone/ and most of the time i do/ while busily putting up a brave front/ too many brambles in these bushes.../ i'm a little bit in love with all my friends/ when my friends are male it's easy to get confused/ and i should shut up this hungry heart until it's time/ but it slips out of my hands and on to the floor/ so their feet won't have to touch the ground/ my poetry reveals and hides me/ it allows tiny peeks that are often misleading/ a little person comes out and writes some lines/ then disappears forever into the fold/ so what use is knowing its synapses in english form?/ all poets are liars and theives/ i want someone to ignore the lies for the poetry/ who will sing the tune without the words/ and let all my little people run where they may/ whether or not they write a single word."-Jennifer Dawn Crispin, "synapse"
1921) "Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish to record. Not the ones I made, but the ones I might have made."-Jeanette Winterson
1922) "With everyone in accord, what merriment is there?"-Jeanette Winterson
1923) "Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light."-Jeanette Winterson
1924) "The blessed virgin would be different if God hadn't violated her."-Jeanette Winterson
1925) "What you risk reveals what you value."-Jeanette Winterson
1926) "Do all lovers feel helpless valient in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valient because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to."-Jeanette Winterson
1927) "For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood."-Molly Haskell
1928) "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."-Albert Einstein
1929) "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."-Luciano de Crescenzo
1930) "A day without laughter is a day wasted."-Charlie Chaplin
1931) "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."-Mark Twain
1932) "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."-Plato
1933) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."-Friedrich Nietzsche
1934) "One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth."-Friedrich Nietzsche
1935) "I am what I am, I am my own special creation/ So come take a look, give me the hook, or the ovation/ It's my world that I want to have a little pride in/ My world, and it's not a place I have to hide in/ Life's not worth a damn, till you can say 'Hey world,/ I am what I am!'/ I am what I am, I don't want praise, I don't want pity/ I bang my own drum, some say it's noise, I think it's pretty/ And so what if I love each feather and each spangle/ Why not try to see things from a different angle?/ Your life is a sham till you can shout out loud/ I am what I am/ I am what I am, and what I am need no excuses/ I deal my own deck, sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces/ There's one life and there's no return and no deposit/ One life so it's time to open up your closet/ Life's not worth a damn till you can say 'Hey, world,/ I am what I am!'"-Jerry Herman
1936) "To love and be loved is like stealing into the heavens."
1937) "You don't quit playing because you get old, you get old because you quit playing."
1938) "To say 'I love you,' one must know first how to say the 'I.'"-Ayn Rand
1939) "And, by the way, how is my heart? I haven't seen it since you left."-John Gorka
1940) "If you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk, you can sing."-African Proverb
1941) "Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage."-Ainas Nin
1942) "Phenomenal Woman--Pretty women wonder where my secret lies/ I'm not cute or built to suit a models' fashion size/ But when I start to tell them/ They think I'm telling lies./ I say/ It's in the reach of my arms/ The span of my hips/ The stride of my steps/ The curl of my lips./ I'm a woman/ Phenomenally/ Phenomenal woman/ That's me./ I walk into a room/ Just as cool as you please/ And to a man/ The fellows stand or/ Fall down on their knees/ Then they swarm around me/ A hive of honey bees./ I say/ It's the fire in my eyes/ And the flash of my teeth/ The swing of my waist/ And the joy in my feet./ I'm a woman/ Phenomenally/ Phenomenal woman/ That's me./ Men themselves have wondered/ What they see in me/ They try so much/ But they can't touch/ My inner mystery./ When I try to show them/ They say they still can't see./ I say/ It's in the arch of my back/ The sun of my smile/ The ride of my breasts/ The grace of my style./ I'm a woman/ Phenomenally/ Phenomenal woman That's me./ Now you understand/ Just why my head's not bowed/ I don't shout or jump about/ Or have to talk real loud/ When you see me passing/ It ought to make you proud./ I say/ It's in the click of my heels/ The bend of my hair/ The palm of my hand/ The need for my care./ 'Cause I'm a woman/ Phenomenally/ Phenomenal woman/ That's me."-Maya Angelou
1943) "Love is hate covered by a velvet cloth."
1944) "Love is suicide."-Billy Corgan
1945) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."-Edgar Allan Poe
1946) "Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down."-Billie Joe Armstrong
1947) "Destroy the mind. Destroy the body. But you cannot destroy the heart."-Billy Corgan
1948) "And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without."-Billy Corgan
1949) "Existence is but the shadow of a dream's leftover."-Snezan Cebic
1950) "The human world is full of weak-minded people who think they're clever as can be."-Michael Ende
1951) "Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel."-Billy Corgan
1952) "everyone has a history/ you just happen to be part of mine/ a part i ignore (aka try not to remember)/ often i forget that./ i wonder/ were we to wander the same internet community,/ as everything in this world is connected to the web,/ you might find me/ in a miscellaneous guest book,/ recognizing the absent typos/ or stitching of my soul./ ironically, your entry falls under mine/ and no questing eyes/ viewing the anarchy of web design/ would notice the remarkable history here,/ recognize that for a first time/ in eons/ the two people who spent hours entangled in each others follicles and/ sweat,/ are grazing each other/ with type setting."-Rain Tori
1953) "I have woven a parachute out of everything broken."-William Stafford
1954) "I'm not O.K., you're not O.K., and that's O.K.!"-Elizabeth Kubler Ross
1955) "In what ways are you tempted to collapse into the negative? I feel it's much more interesting to focus on and magnify the positive. You can use a magnifying glass. The negative is still there--it's just that the spotlight is on the positive."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1956) "Do you actually know anyone who got a 'swelled head' from too much praise? Usually it was far too little, and they retreated to their ego for escape and became grandiose as a type of defense."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1957) "If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you. I came to live out loud."-Emile Zola
1958) "We are not in control. As a controlling type of person, I hate this fact."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1959) "No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1960) "I think of us all as music boxes--beautiful and full of music...especially when we open up!"-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1961) "If she got really quiet and listened, new parts of her wanted to speak."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1962) "I'm often seduced by struggle."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1963) "Conformity...soothes us. We can predict it, and there is the illusion of control."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1964) "If there is darkness, we have our flashlights....If there is despair, fear, anxiety, anger, or agony, we can become our own best parents and hold the little child inside of us."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1965) "When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you: either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly."-Patrick Overton
1966) "Life is like a box of chocolates. Cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down until there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or english toffee, but they're gone too fast....the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those all you got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."-Cancer Man in The X-Files
1967) "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."-J. Krishnamurti
1968) "We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is 'essential' and that nothing at all is 'important.'"-Helen M. Luke
1969) "When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passess, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware."-Mel Colgrove
1970) "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."-Lao-tzu
1971) "There are those who are very special to each of us, maybe not throughout our lives, maybe not for very long, maybe only in passing. But they make up the most beloved and cherished group we each have. These are our nearest angels, and as things turn out, often we are theirs, too."-Karen Goldman
1972) "In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one's life history is etched in the senses."-Banana Yoshimoto
1973) "Coda--When you are small there is no protection/ From shame/ & now that you are older/ Your attempts to keep the unsafe out/ Costs you more than you can imagine/ We need to breathe in the direction of danger.../ & to sing/ We must not only be wounded/ --For surely all of us are that/ But be willing to suffer/ The terrifying healing,/ With its stations of humilation,/ Shame, endurance & grief"-Gary Rosenthal
1974) "When you face pain directly she will give you an ointment so the wounds don't fester."-Ruth Gendler
1975) "We all bargain with what we can and can't accept living with."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1976) "I'm no longer afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship."-Louisa May Alcott
1977) "And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."-Emily Kimbrough
1978) "You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."-Jan Glidewell
1979) "My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman--concentrate on becoming the right man.'"-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1980) "When you're alone, you can create your own mythology and nobody challenges you. In a relationship, your own bullshit gets reflected back much quicker."
1981) "Intimacy happens in moments. The mistake we make is wanting it all the time."-Jo Ann Magdoff
1982) "Give me a thousand men in the audience, and me on the stage and I know exactly what to do. Give me just one man and me on a couch together, and I'm really scared."-Sharon Stone
1983) "I had connected love and performance together. Love is a mystery and doesn't keep score. We are worthy of love as women just as we are."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1984) "Our limitations, our imperfections, our mistakes...These do not reflect our inferiority, but are part of being human."-Joan Sheingold Ditzion
1985) "The first duty of love is to listen."-Paul Tillich
1986) "Love keeps no record of wrongs."-Apostle Paul
1987) "Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain."-Sharon Salzberg
1988) "Having a child is like growing another heart."-Rosie O'Donnell
1989) "What is this obsession with cleavage? I can appreciate the little tunnel made where breasts are pushed together, but it gets sweaty. You can keep things in there--money, perfume, or a phone number, and it's great for softening the butter at fancy restaurants. Men get delirious at the sight of cleavage (some women too). I think they imagine living in there. Just curling up between the breasts like giant soft pillows. Pillows with nipples."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1990) "Treat yourself as kindly as you do your best friend."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
1991) "Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version."-Carolyn See
1992) "Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity!"
1993) "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."-Victor Borge
1994) "We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others."-Catherine Bromwell Booth
1995) "Real friends believe in your dreams as much as you do."
1996) "A friend listens to our words but hears our heart."
1997) "A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."-Beverly Sills
1998) "All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."-Samuel Butler
1999) "The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."
2000) "The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."-Benjamin Franklin