2001) "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
2002) "Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness."
2003) "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."-Jean Kerr
2004) "We're only young once, but with humor, we can be immature forever."-Art Gliner
2005) "I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive."-Anne Wilson Schaef
2006) "God is a humorist. If you have any doubts about it, look in the mirror."-Ken Olson
2007) "God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh."-Voltaire
2008) "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."-Walter Bagehot
2009) "We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."-James Harvey Robinson
2010) "Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
2011) "Love understands, and love waits."
2012) "If you can't have the best of everything, makes the best of everything you have."
2013) "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
2014) "The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own."-Michael Korda
2014) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."-Helen Keller
2015) "A great philosopher once said--I think it was Henry Kissinger--nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy."-Robert Orben
2016) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."-Carl Sagan
2017) "If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"-Lily Tomlin
2018) "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."-Bertrand Russell
2019) "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."-Thomas Jefferson
2020) "Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other."-Joshua Loth Liebman
2021) "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it."-Jane Wagner
2022) "People say to me, 'You're not very feminine.' Well, they can suck my dick."-Roseanne
2023) "Reality is something you rise above."-Liza Minnelli
2024) "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."-Bertrand Russell
2025) "Love is letting go of fear."-Gerald Jampolsky
2026) "Love teaches even asses to dance."-French proverb
2027) "The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."-Longfellow
2028) "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."-Abraham Lincoln
2029) "Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal."
2030) "Experience is a hard teacher. It gives the test first, the lessons last."
2031) "Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are."-John Maxwell
2032) "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."-Mark Twain
2033) "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."-Harriet Beecher Stowe
2034) "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."-Sam Keen
2035) "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."-Will Smith
2036) "Always tell the truth, say your prayers, hold doors, pull out chairs, easy on the swears."-Will Smith
2037) "It's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."-Mick Jagger
2038) "I'm not gonna be taken down that easily...when everybody's trying to tell me what I'm gonna have to be."-Save Ferris
2039) "What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?"
2040) "I know that I'm exactly, EXACTLY where I'm supposed to be, and I can make mistakes, and those mistakes aren't failures--they're learning experiences. I'm finally aging well. I aged poorly for many years. When I was 18, I knew it was over, because high school was over, and the best years of my life were over. When I was 21, I knew it was over because college was over and the best years of my life were over. Now I'm 24, and I think that the best years of my life are still ahead of me. My favorite age right now is 29, but soon my favorite age will be 30."-Sally Green
2041) "you make me want to take up smoking/ to take long slow drags,/ watching you with half-closed eyes/ but i'll leave the cigarettes in 7-11s where they belong.../ i wouldn't want to taint your beautiful hair/ with my tobacco stained fingers/ i feel like i need a shot of tequila/ that warmth in my belly/ to boil away all of my inhibitions/ but i'm keeping myself away from the hard stuff/ not wanting your beautiful visage to be smudged/ by any alchohol-induced bluriness/ you inspire me to write a thousand poems/ that fill my brain with intoxicating visions/ and sweetly soften my heart/ but i stop myself from signing them/ not wanting to pollute your beautiful brain/ with my lack of rhyme, metre, talent/ you reawaken my heart to hope/ the most potentially dangerous emotion of all/ that allows me to believe you could be on the brink as well/ and i can't stop myself from sharing this/ can't protect your beautiful soul/ from my hungry ramblings/ if i pollute you/ will you still be beautiful?"-Jennifer Dawn Crispin, "indulgences"
2042) "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days, the government had better get out of the way and let them have it."-Dwight D. Eisenhower
2043) "However many harbors there are does not diminish the size of the sea."
2044) "There [is] no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers."-John Irving
2045) "You actually hear more when you turn off all the noise."-Dan Bern
2046) "Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it."-forward
2047) "Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up."-Katherine Dunn
2048) "The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort."-Katherine Dunn
2049) "Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing."-Jeanette Winterson
2050) "When I am alone, and the experience, the emotion, the event, was mine and mine alone, how can I say for certain that I have not invented the entire episode, including the faithful memory of it?"-Jeanette Winterson
2051) "When there is no difference there is no richness."-Jeanette Winterson
2052) "A novel is a mirror walking down a road."-Michael Ondaatje
2053) "All atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur."-Michael Ondaatje
2054) "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy."-Max Ehrman, "Desiderata"
2055) "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2056) "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."-The Buddha
2057) "Before my husband, I'd never fallen in love...although I'd stepped in it a few times."-Rita Rudner
2058) "Fear less, hope more;/ Whine less, breathe more;/ Talk less, say more;/ Hate less, love more;/ And all good things are yours."
2059) "Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all."-Carlos Castaneda
2060) "Wisdom comes more from living than from studying."
2061) "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."-Antoine se Saint Exupery
2062) "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."-Robert Frost
2063) "If you don't scale the mountains, you can't see the view..."
2064) "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."-Plato
2065) "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."-Anne Frank
2066) "Knowledge is love and light and vision."-Helen Keller
2067) "I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen."-Walt Disney
2068) "A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate his chances of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether he is doing right or wrong."-Socrates
2069) "If you live in the present, every moment is a new beginning."
2070) "The beginning is scary; the end is usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that should count."-Hope Floats
2071) "When you have a lot, you should give a lot."-Rosie O'Donnell
2072) "He who is silent is understood to consent."
2073) "Poor is the man/ Whose pleasures depend/ On the permission of another."-Madonna
2074) "Your family is your unchosen friends, and your friends are your chosen family."-Erin Emmerling
2075) "Remember, you are braver than you believe, you are stronger than you seem, and you are smarter than you think."-A.A. Milne
2076) "Feeling is really not as scary as not feeling."-Iona Marsaa Teeguarden
2077) "Watching a peaceful death of a human being/ reminds us of a falling star;/ one of a million lights in a vast sky/ that flares up for a brief moment/ only to disappear into the endless night forever."-Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
2078) "But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourn/ No traveller returns, puzzles the will/ And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?"-William Shakespeare
2079) "One owes respect to the Living. To the Dead, one owes only Truth."-Voltaire
2080) "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."-Woody Allen
2081) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."-Nietzsche
2082) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."-George Bernard Shaw
2083) "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."-Steward Alsop
2084) "A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go."-James Duffecy
2085) "Time is one of the essential ingredients. Each day brings 86,400 seconds. Whatever isn't used is gone forever."
2086) "Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticpiate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?"-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2087) "There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2088) "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."-Graham Greene
2089) "But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be."-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2090) "There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments."-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2091) "It was for children that one wanted heaven, Ruth thought. It was only for the sake of being able to say: 'Daddy's in heaven, Graham,' which was what she'd said then."-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2092) "But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination."-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2093) "It's not the easiest thing to meet the friends of someone you've fallen in love with..."-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
2094) "Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes."-Bette Midler
2095) "Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets."-Clark Moustakas
2096) "Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
2097) "Once someone touches your heart, the fingerprints last forever."
2098) "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death."-Mel Brooks
2099) "I'd rather be pissed off than pissed on."
2100) "This is who I am, what I do and what I say. If you like it let it be, and if you don't please do the same."-Ani DiFranco