2601) "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."-Cherokee prayer
2602) "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
2603) "Everything changed the day he figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in life."-Brian Andreas
2604) "Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal."-Sappho
2605) "I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars."-Audre Lorde
2606) "In this great future, you can't forget your past."-Bob Marley
2607) "When I look at ugliness, I see beauty./ When I am far from home, I see old friends./ When there is noise, I hear a robin's song instead./ When I am in a crowd, it is the mountain's peace I feel./ In the winter of my sorrow, I remember the summer of my joy./ In the nighttime of my loneliness, I breathe the day of my thanksgiving/ But when the sadness spreads its blanket and that is what I see./ I take my eyes to some high place until I find/ A reflection of what lies deep inside of me."-Navajo
2608) "The Pledge of Allegiance says, '...with liberty and justice for all.' What part of 'all' don't you understand?"-Pat Schroeder
2609) "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."-Albert Einstein
2610) "Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."-John Cogley Commonweal
2611) "Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."-Leo C. Rosten
2610) "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead."-Louisa May Alcott
2612) "Freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all."
2613) "Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on."-Arthur K. Watson
2614) "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."-Albert Camus
2615) "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."-Thomas Paine
2616) "Let us always greet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."-Mother Teresa
2617) "Please explain why your silence makes more noise than thunder."-K's Choice
2618) "Pain of the mind hurts more than pain of the body."-Little Man Tate
2619) "Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of affections as leaves are to the life of a tree."-Nathaniel Hawthorne
2620) "Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?"-Ellen DeGeneres
2621) "Passion was there but it could not be easily labelled, it slipped between love and hatred and jealousy and all the furniture of the pictorial style."-E.M. Forster
2622) "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."-Ernest Hemmingway
2623) "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."-Niels Bohr
2624) "The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter."-Winston Churchill
2625) "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know."-Ambrose Bierce
2626) "If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head."-Randolph Bourne
2627) "Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."-Sean Connery
2628) "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."-Albert Einstein
2629) "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."-Joseph Stalin
2630) "There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't."
2631) "I wasn't kidding. I do have a test today. It's on European Socialism. What's the big deal? I'm not European. I don't plan on becoming European. So why should I care if they're socialists? They could be facist, anarchist pigs. It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't have a car."-Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2632) "No man is worth the tear of a beautiful woman, and every woman is beautiful."
2633) "To laugh is to risk appearing the fool./ To weep is to risk appearing sentimental./ To reach out for another is to risk involvement./ To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self./ To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss./ To love is to risk not being loved in return./ To live is to risk dying./ To hope is to risk despair./ To try is to risk failure./ But risks must be taken because the greastest hazard in life is to risk nothing./ The person who asks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing./ They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live./ Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom./ Only a person who risks is free."
2634) "We are the hero our own story."-Mary McCarthy
2635) "This is how it seems to me: life is only therapy - real expensive and no guarantee."-Garth Brooks
2636) "If it is to be, it is up to me..."
2637) "For life is holy and every moment is precious."-Jack Kerouac
2638) "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
2639) "What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself."-Konstantin Stanislavsky
2640) "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."-Albert Schweitzer
2641) "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."-Henry David Thoreau
2642) "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."-H.H. Munro
2643) "Sanity is madness put to good uses."-George Santayana
2644) "The eye--is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?"-Rosa Bonheur
2645) "Courage is not the absence of despair. Rather it is the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."-Rollo May
2646) "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Salvor Hardin
2647) "We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly."-Sally Warner
2648) "There exists no more difficult art than living."-Seneca
2649) "In this Twentieth Century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is 'an unforgettable experience.'"-Frederick Franck
2650) "Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering."-D.T. Suzuki
2651) "If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth."-Albert Camus
2652) "Through peaceful downs and violent storms we find ourselves in balance."
2653) "It's impossible to learn what you think you already know."
2654) "...i mean really, the human form can be beautiful in so many different ways, i just don't see a need to limit my attraction to that beauty."-Steph Summers
2655) "It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know."-Henry David Thoreau
2656) "Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end."-Lou Holtz
2657) "Regretting in life makes you depressed. I speak from experience."-Christine Usyak
2658) "I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind--and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."-Michel de Montaigne
2659) "I wanted you to see what real courage is instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."-Harper Lee
2660) "You will never be fully alive as long as there is a new discovery to be made about yourself, your capacity, and the world."-Dean Joseph McShane
2661)) "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts."-Percy Bysshe Shelly
2662) "Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces."-Colin Neenan
2663) "The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see."-Sarah Densen
2664) "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."-Henry David Thoreau
2665) "If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault."
2666) "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams go, life is a barren field covered with snow."-Langston Hughes, "Harlem"
2667) "Love who you love, not who loves you."-Naomi Freeman
2668) "In our lives there is bound to come some pain, surely as there are storms and falling rain; just believe that the one who holds the storms will bring the sun."-Mac Powell
2669) "Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear."-Garth Brooks
2670) "You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be."-Neale Donald Walsch
2671) "Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in."-Ani DiFranco
2672) "...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace."-Ani DiFranco
2673) "It is always best to leave while you're still having fun."
2674) "...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows..."-Bob Dylan
2675) "You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend/ when I was down, you just stood there grinning/ You've got a lot of nerve to say you've got a helping hand to lend/ you just want to be on the side that's winning/ You say I let you down/ but you know it's not like that/ if you're so hurt/ why, then, don't you show it?/ You say you lost your faith/ but that's not where it's at/ you have no faith to lose and you know it/ I know the reason you talk behind my back/ I used to be among the crowd you're in with/ Do you take me for such a fool/ to think I'd make contact/ with the one who tries to hide what it don't know to begin with/ you seen me on the street/ you always act surprised/ you say 'how are you,' 'good luck'/ but you don't mean it/ when you know as well as me/ you'd rather see me paralyzed/ why don't you just come out once and scream it?/ I do not feel that good when I see the heart breaks you embrace/ If I were as a master thief/ perhaps I'd rob them/ And though I know you're dissatisfied with your position and your place/ Don't you understand it's not my problem?/ I wish that for just one time/ you could stand inside my shoes/ and just for that one moment/ I could be you/ Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes/ you'd know what a drag it is to see you."-Bob Dylan
2676) "...So here we are at last:/ The time has gone so fast and so have my dreams./ I simply don't know what it all means,/ this pointless passage through the night,/ the autumn-time, this walk upon the water./ I wonder how long/ it will be till this song/ is sung by our own sons and daughters..."-Peter Hammil
2677) "The days are strange, at night we're strangers,/ lie in bed and lie inside our heads,/ we come no closer than as dancers./ Your eyes are change, your presence danger,/ won't look me in the face and yet you/ kiss and make up the answer/ to the question that fly unanswered, unreasoned -/ death in the sky, death in the season./ If you leave me now, it might nearly kill me..."-Peter Hammil
2678) "When I began I was full of altruistic dreams,/ believed in princes and princesses, kings and queens -/ now I find they're all human inside,/ all bitterness and pride,/ so why shouldn't I be like that too?/ It seems that I've forgotten all I tried so hard to learn;/ It seems there's not an ounce of love and trust anywhere in the world..."-Peter Hammil
2679) "People don't smoke, the cigarette smokes; we're just the suckers behind it."
2680) "Wrong can't be undone."-Kenny Wayne Shepherd
2681) "They say the sun shines for all, but in some people's world, it never shine at all."-Bob Marley
2682) "A smile can open a heart faster that a key can open a door."
2683) "Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment."
2684) "After all is said and done, there's more said than done."
2685) "Why is it that hate comes out so easily, yet...love? It gets trapped inside."
2686) "Love is just a word, a label; real love is unexplainable."
2687) "All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."-Oscar Wilde
2688) "The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them."
2689) "What do you do when the only person that can stop you from crying is the one who's making you cry?"
2690) "The surest sign that intelligent life exists outside of this planet is that it has never tried to contact us."
2691) "There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play."-Dar Williams
2692) "...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that."-Dar Williams
2693) "Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing,/ I cannot ease the burden of your fears,/ Or make quick-coming death a little thing,/ Or bring again the pleasure of past years,/ Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears,/ Or hope again for aught that I can say,/ The idle singer of an empty day."-William Morris
2694) "I suspect you of cherishing a dream that you will find some man who will provide the central meaning in your life. I distrust this dream because I believe that the central meaning must come from yourself. If you can't find it there you won't find it...In fact, I wonder if it is possible to love without having achieved a degree of personal fulfillment within oneself."-Eleanor McGarr
2695) "When I look at ugliness, I see beauty. When I am far from home, I see old friends. When there is noise, I hear a robin's song instead. When I am in a crowd, it is the mountain's peace I feel. In the winter of my sorrow, I remember the summer of my joy. In the nighttime of my loneliness, I breathe the day of my thanksgiving. But when the sadness spreads its blanket and that is what I see, I take my eyes to some high place until I find a reflection of what lies deep inside of me."-Navajo saying
2696) "Beauty is a rebellion against time."-Milan Kundera
2697) "I just don't believe that most people are living the smooth, controlled, trouble-free existence that their careful countenances and bland words suggest. Today never hands me the same thing twice and I believe that for almost everyone life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories, and vague defeats - with very few moments of clear peace. I never do seem to quite get on top of it. My struggle with today is worthwhile, but it's a struggle nonetheless and one that seems to never end. The payoff must be elsewhere, and I suspect that it's within that laughing heart that can surface so unexpectedly."-Hugh Prather
2698) "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
2699) "When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us."-Alexander Graham Bell
2700) "To those who understand music, they know that music does not come from your mouth. The only reason it comes from there is that it has to get out from somewhere. Anyway, music is sung by your heart and your soul and it is felt by all those who really understand and love it."-a man at a homeless shelter