2501) "I haven't seen you in a while/ yet I often imagine /all your expressions./ I haven't spoken to you recently/ but many times/ I hear your thoughts./ Good friends must not always/ be together./ It is the feeling of oneness/ when distant/ that proves a lasting friendship."
2502) "Friends are angels sent down to earth to make good days and help us find our way."
2503) "What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2504) "Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, That's why love is so strong. So it can carry you...all the way home."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2505) "Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You'll only hurt yourself."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2506) "If you commit your heart and your love to someone, you're afraid that you'll get hurt. Well, you will. Both of you. You are going to have problems and pain and anger. You'll also have joy. Great joy."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2507) "Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2508) "I don't know where. And I don't know when. The only thing I do know is that the kind of love worth waiting for, you won't have to lie for, or steal, or keep hidden."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2509) "You must be strong now. You must never give up. And when people make you cry and you are afraid of the dark, don't forget the light is always there."-Touched by an Angel daily calender
2510) "If we don't feel love with our heart, then how come that's where it hurts when someone doesn't love you back?"-Jodie Beerman
2511) "If love is such a 'pure' thing, then why do we all have to go through hell to find it?"-Jodie Beerman
2512) "You oughta stop playing God, because you are not good at it and the position is taken."
2513) "Why insult the door's purpose by locking it?"
2514) "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you will suck forever."
2515) "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them you are a mile away...and you have their shoes"-Al Franken as Jack Handey
2516) "It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."-W. Somerset Maugham
2517) "If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could not otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."-Montaigne
2518) "One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."-Voltaire
2519) "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."-Elbert Hubbard
2520) "Ever had a relationship end in such a way that you never saw it coming, but it was as if an avalanche had hit you, or a firestorm had swept over you, leaving your charred body waiting for the next breeze to blow it into a little drift of ashes? That is ["This Was Pompeii" by Dar Williams] to me. Not anguish-wracked faces, but the shadows left on walls by a nuclear blast."-Carolie Bartol
2521) "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."-Carl Jung
2522) "Questions are the creative acts of intelligence."-Frank Kingdon
2523) "In a mad world, only the mad are sane."-Akira Kurosawa
2524) "The biggest sin is sitting on your ass."-Florynce Kennedy
2525) "The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind."-Martin Luther King Jr.
2526) "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."-Frank Leahy
2527) "It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."-Roger L'Estrange
2528) "The loneliness was still there, but it was getting louder and easier to dance to."-Brett Butler
2529) "If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you."-Oscar Wilde
2530) "...I think we owe it ourselves, and to those we love, to strive for joy. We must transform our own mistakes, and mistakes made towards us, into things that we cherish. Revelry is not only the domain of children. Awe is not the product of innocence. Joy is not the precurser to a life of anger. Unfortunately there are those who do not believe life to be good. There are those that harbour more hatred than can possibly be healthy for anybody. We see it in bigotry; we see it in rage; and we see it most clearly in the inability to forgive and forget."-West McDonald
2531) "If you're going to soar with the eagles in the morning, you can't hoot with the owls all night."
2532) "Judgment is like elastic, it snaps back at you."
2533) "Friends find comfort in what they share and delight in how they differ."
2534) "The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children."-Nancy Friday
2535) "you were my best friend/ you were my lover/ you were my mentor.../ you were my keeper/ you were my anchor/ you were my family/ you were my saviour/ and therein lay the issue/ and therein lay the problem..."-A.M.
2536) "i am not a pretty girl/ that is not what i do/ i ain't no damsel in distess/ and i don't need to be rescued/ so put me down punk/ maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair/ isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere/ i am not an angry girl/ but it seems like i've got everyone fooled/ every time i say something they find hard to hear/ they chalk it up to my anger/ and never to their own fear/ and imagine you're a girl/ just trying to finally come clean/ knowing full well they'd prefer you/ were dirty and smiling/ and i am sorry/ i am not a maiden fair/ and i am not a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere/ and generally my generation/ wouldn't be caught dead working for the man/ and generally i agree with them/ trouble is you gotta have youself an alternate plan/ and i have earned my disillusionment/ i have been working all of my life/ and i am a patriot/ i have been fighting the good fight/ and what if there are no damsels in distress/ what if i knew that and i called your bluff?/ don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down/ whether or not you ever show up/ i am not a pretty girl/ i don't want to be a pretty girl/ no i want to be more than a pretty girl"-Ani DiFranco, "Not a Pretty Girl"
2537) "I like having my cuticles removed. It makes me feel like a person. When I have cuticles, I feel like a non-person."-Jessica Schraub
2538) "It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."-Mignon McLaughlin
2539) "Music is about an exchange between people."-Ani DiFranco
2540) "Only for a moment; but it was enough. It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores! Then, for the moment, she had seen an illumination; a match burning in a crocus; an inner meaning almost expressed. But the close withdrew; the hard softened. It was over--the moment."-Virginia Woolf
2541) "'It doesn't matter how many mommies or how many daddies you family has,' Molly says to the children. 'It doesn't matter if your family has sisters or brothers or cousins or grandmothers or grandfathers or uncles or aunts. Each family is special. The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.'"-Leslea Newman, Heather Has Two Mommies
2542) "To be a freshman is to be in possession of a wonderful thing: time. There is time to figure out what you want to do with your life, time to figure out what classes you want to take, what books you want to read. There is time to make friends. You could do poorly in a class and know you had time to improve. You could mess up in your relationship and have time to make things better. With four promising years ahead of you, time sat around like huge clumps of clay, waiting for you to shape them in whatever way you pleased."-Malik Wilson
2543) "When you leave Penn, there are people who you will always remember. There are people who will always remember you. But there are also those people who will form the periphery of your experience. That person you liked but never really got to know. That friend you won't keep in contact with after you graduate. That girl that you always wanted to talk to. That guy you thought was cute. They are the extras, the minor characters, and the reoccurring faces that add depth and substance to your story. And you will do the same for them. They make their cameo appearances in your life and then continue along their way. Some of them may prove to be more influential later on, but most of them will fade into your permanent background, lost in the echoes of memory."-Malik Wilson
2544) "Every time she sees a movie, she thinks it's about her./ Every time she hears a song, she thinks it's about them./ She has never felt this way before,/ no she has never felt this way./ She has never loved before./ In the past she'd always been selfish./ In the past she'd always been able to run./ No thing had ever held her there./ No boy that she has ever cared for./ She didn't think this could happen to her./ She had no idea what feelings were./ Now she knows if she ever leaves,/ she won't have a thing to believe in./ This was an independent girl./ It's not her nature to kiss./ It's not her nature to even think about a song like this./ But something comes when they're together,/ Turns her into a silly, laughing, drooling, crying, little girl./ She says, 'Come on grow old with me,/ they say the best is yet to be./ I ask you to hold my hand, put your arm around me, help me understand./ Dependence is new to me./ Completeness, a wonder to see./ Something comes inside of me,/ and I, I have never, never felt so free./ I'll tell you once./ I can't do it again./ I love you more than I can comprehend.'/ This was an independent girl./ She never wanted this before./ Now she doesn't think she wants anything more./ She says, 'Come on grow old with me./ They say the best is yet to be./ Something comes when we're together,/ turns me into a silly, laughing/ Drooling, crying little girl.'/ This was an independent girl./ I was an independent..."-Erin McKeown, "Something Comes"
2545) "Total happiness is never grand."-Aldous Huxley
2546) "Don't drive faster than your gardian angle can fly."-Virginia
2547) "Does your conscience bother you?"-Lynyrd Skynyrd
2548) "It's never gonna be the same, cause the years are falling by like rain."-Oasis
2549) "Every man thinketh his burden is the heaviest."-Bob Marley
2550) "I feel so high, I even touch the sky above the falling rain."-Bob Marley
2551) "He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."-Ken Kesey
2552) "Real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities, opens all doors; you can walk through any one that suits you. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."-Jim Morrison
2553) "To not decide is a decision."-fortune cookie
2554) "The key to willpower is wantpower. People who want something bad enough can usually find the willpower to achieve it."
2555) "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."-George Santayana
2556) "He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen."-Martial
2557) "Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way."-Anne Morrow Linderg
2558) "Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction."-Insect
2559) "Love is what's left in a relationship when all of the selfishness has been removed."
2560) "Nobody ever seems to remember; life is a game we play."-Oasis
2561) "If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum."
2562) "Homosexuality is hard to explain as a biological adaptation. So is stamp collecting."-Geoffrey Cowley
2563) "I'll remember you/ when I've forgotten all the rest/ you to me were true/ you to me were the best/ I'll remember you at the end of the thrill/ there are some people you just don't forget/ even though you've only seen them one time or two/ in the end my dear sweet friend/ I'll remember you"-Bob Dylan
2564) "Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been."-Tiny Tim
2565) "All we have is an address. We weren't given specific directions like which route, which method of travel. Some people prefer to drive the highway, others perfer to take the scenic back roads, while others choose to walk. Religious intolerance is the people who drive the highway thinking that the people who are walking are 'doing it wrong' and therefore they are justified by running over them."-Stephanie
2566) "When you fall on somebody, it's not enough to say you didn't mean to; after all, he probably didn't mean to be beneath you."-Pooh's Little Instruction Book
2567) "The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'?"-Bill Watterson
2568) "Wow, look at the grass stains on my skin. I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."-Bill Watterson
2569) "To be remembered you must first touch someone's heart."-Mary M. Illigassch
2570) "To be loved is proof that you have done something right."-Mary M. Illigassch
2571) "Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate."-Mary M. Illigassch
2572) "If you aren't remembered...your life never mattered to anyone but you."-Mary M. Illigassch
2573) "the best relationships--friendship and otherwise--tend to be those where you *can* say anything to the other person but you don't say *everything*."-Audrey Beth Stein
2574) "On a practical level, the principle of telos implies that each of us is subject to a spiritual evolutionary principle which is constantly working to bring us to a realization of our divinity. Toward this end, the evolutionary impetus employs all means at its disposal, including the symbols and circumstances of our waking and dream lives. To paraphrase the first-century Indian master Nagarjuna, the enlightened beings are everywhere, just waiting for sentient beings ripe for spiritual guidance. When an appropriate moment comes, they can manifest as animals, objects, lovers, thieves, spiritual masters, or whatever may be needed to push or pull beings toward a higher state of spiritual development."-Ray Grasse
2575) "i'm actually kinda amazed at the power music has over my feelings about myself, my sense of peace, how lyrics can help me work out ideas and feelings; music makes me a whole person and without it, i'd just be a fraction of who i am now."-Therese Leung
2576) "Everyone is different. When you don't mind your difference it stops being a problem and becomes your distinction."-Joan Alden
2577) "One Ship Sails East, another west by the self same winds that blow. Tis the set of the sail, and not the gail which determines the way they go. Like the ways of the sea are the ways of time as we travel along in life. Tis the set of the soul that determines the goal and not the calm nor strife."
2578) "There is no destiny, no chance, no fate that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
2579) "So sad so sad, the news that come our way this morning/ Like a bad dream, a dream you could never even talk about/ In a school, in a school, where we send our precious children/ The one place of innocence the world might ever let them know/ And barely aware of the odds against existence in the first place/ Of love and fertility and risk of a baby being born/ And of food and clothes and fear and maybe relocation/ Of sickness and recovery and music lessons, painting the garage/ And lingering over eggs and thoughts and sleepy conversation/ Of plans for the weekend and one last pause to pet the dog/ And glancing at the clock and the grabbing of the sandwich and the notebook/ Confident of nothing but the unbroken days which they've been granted/ But comes a child, a child so full of anger and hatred/ Barely conscious of the genesis coursing through his veins/ With a gun, a gun, a deaf and blind deliverer of madness/ Skilled in its efficiency beyond his own unformulated brain/ And his fellow creatures, school kids in their crushes and their daydreams/ Struggling to unwrap the ancient secrets of geometry/ And he pulls from his coat the instrument to shatter all forevers/ In a random blaze of insides and blood and endless now/ And boom and flash and again and not even when it's over/ Can any of them summon up so much as the sanity to scream/ And on the floor his classmates blown down, and choking/ As he lays his weapon on his desk, partly sure he isn't dreaming/ And from all the world they descend with condolence/ And to offer up their theories of what went wrong and when and who and why and how/ It's all those killings day and night on the television/ It's the movies where violence is natural as breathing/ It's guns and bullets easily obtainable as candy/ It's video games where you kill and begin to think it's real/ It's people not having god in their lives anymore/ Or it's all of it, or none of it, or some of it, in various combinations/ Now all those theories they sound pretty logical I guess/ Though I ain't no scientist, I ain't no dissector of statistics/ I ain't no psychologist, I ain't no biologist or theologist/ All that I can do is offer up a prayer of my own/ Talk to your kids, play with your kids/ Tell 'em your dreams, and your disappointments/ Listen to your kids, and listen with your kids/ Watch your kids, let your kids watch you/ Tell your kids the truth, best as you can tell it/ No use telling lies, your kids can always smell it/ Cook for your kids, have your kids cook for you/ Paint with your kids, dust with your kids/ Be sad with your kids, be stupid with your kids/ Embarrass your kids, let them embarrass you/ Be strong with your kids, be tough with your kids/ Be firm with your kids, say no to your kids,/ Say yes to your kids, take it easy on your kids/ You were a kid not so long ago/ There are places you go, they will never know/ There are things they know, you don't know/ So draw with your kids, dance with your kids/ Walk with your kids, tell stories to your kids/ One day your kids, ain't gonna be kids/ Maybe they'll have kids of their own/ Let's hope they talk to their kids/ Play with their kids/ Tell 'em their dreams/ And their disappointments"-Dan Bern, "Kids' Prayer"
2580) "at that time my heart was all broke...i looked like ashes and smelled like smoke...i turned away from my loving kind...tried to leave my body and live in my mind..."-James Taylor
2581) "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."-Mark Twain
2582) "Music is love, love is music, music is my life and I love my life."-AJ McLean
2583) "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."-Tim McGraw
2584) "Choose to chance the rapids, dare to dance the tide."-Garth Brooks
2585) "Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming."-Jonathan Knight
2586) "It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."-Abraham Lincoln
2587) "Remember the past...worry about the present, cause you can't rely on the future."-DeWanna Michelle Shelton
2588) "The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit."-Dwight Morrow
2589) "...Now you're ready for the actual shopping. Your goal should be to get it over with as quickly as possible, because the longer you stay in the mall, the longer your children will have to listen to holiday songs on the mall public-address system, and many of these songs can damage children emotionally. For example: 'Frosty the Snowman' is about a snowman who befriends some children, plays with them until they learn to love him, then melts. And 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' is about a young reindeer who, because of a physical deformity, is treated as an outcast by the other reindeer. Then along comes good, old Santa. Does he ignore the deformity? Does he look past Rudolph's nose and respect Rudolph for the sensitive reindeer he is underneath? No. Santa asks Rudolph to guide his sleigh, as if Rudolph were nothing more than some kind of headlight with legs and a tail. So unless you want your children exposed to this kind of insensitivity, you should shop quickly."-Dave Barry
2590) "'You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen!'"-Douglas Adams
2591) "If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."-Earl Wilson
2592) "Laughter is the closest distance between two people."-Victor Borge
2593) "A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place."-IEEE Grid newsmagazine
2594) "Honk if you hate bumper stickers that say 'Honk if...'"-bumper sticker
2595) "The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group."
2596) "Love is a word that is constantly heard,/ Hate is a word that is not./ Love, I am told, is more precious than gold./ Love, I have read, is hot./ But hate is the verb that to me is superb,/ And Love but a drug on the mart./ Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,/ But Hating, my boy, is an Art."-Ogden Nash
2597) "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone."-Gloria Steinem
2598) "The irony it seems to me/ it's un-American policy./ Yeah, we'e come so far but still/ only to find people like you with ignorant minds."-Ramones
2599) "LIKE MY GARDEN? TAKE A PICTURE - TOMORROW I MAY CHANGE MY MIND!"
2600) "Murphy's Discovery: Do you know Presidents talk to the country the way men talk to women? They say, 'Trust me, go all the way with me, and everything will be all right.' And what happens? Nine months later, you're in trouble!"