2701) "Don't cry because it's over, but smile because it happened."
2702) "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2703) "Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
2704) "It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life."-Jimi Hendrix
2705) "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
2706) "Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,/ Listen to the DON'TS/ Listen to the SHOULDN'TS/ The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS/ Listent to the NEVER HAVES/ Then listen close to me---/ Anything can happen, child,/ ANYTHING can be."-Shel Silverstein
2707) "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."-William Wordsworth
2708) "The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning 'many,' and the word 'ticks' meaning 'blood sucking parasites.'"-George Stepanaphoulus
2709) "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."-Elbert Hubbard
2710) "People always say you should be yourself, like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something, like you can know what it is even. But every so often, I'll have like, a moment, where being myself and my life right where I am is, like, enough."-Angela on My So-Called Life
2711) "...because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be."-Judy Blume
2712) "Happy families are all alike. All unhappy families are unhappy in their own way."-Leo Tolstoy
2713) "No hurt heals by itself. So although we do not choose the ways we are hurt, we can choose the ways we will heal."
2714) "I was always looking outside myself in strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."-Anna Freud
2715) "Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."-Native American Proverb
2716) "Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's nose."-Chinese proverb
2717) "Ultimately, the bond of companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation."-Oscar Wilde
2718) "Lately it's occured to me what a long strange trip it's been."-Grateful Dead
2719) "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."-Lillian Hellman
2720) "I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important."-Ayn Rand
2721) "Close your eyes and you will see clearly,/ Cease to listen and you will hear truth,/ Be silent and your heart will sing,/ Seek no contacts and you will find union,/ Be still and you will move forward on the tide of spirit,/ Be gentle and you will need no strenth,/ Be patient and you will achieve all things,/ Be humble and you will remain entire."
2722) "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."-Josh Billings
2723) "Better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."-Chinese Proverb
2724) "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."-Mark Twain
2725) "Both of my parents are of the 'What I don't know can't hurt me' school so they keep themselves pretty ignorant."-Pamela Christman
2726) "How can you suddenly assign importance to something that was meaningless just last week?"-Pamela Christman
2727) "Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you?"-Cleopatra VII
2728) "When her laughter first unfurled its wings into the wind, we knew the world would never be the same"-Brian Andreas
2729) "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."-George Bernard Shaw
2730) "Simplicity often symbolizes beauty."-Vanessa Pellon
2731) "Trying to squash a rumour is like trying to unring a bell."-Shana Alexander
2732) "The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before."-Erica Jong
2733) "The communication of music is a heartbridge gateway to all people: not just the music of instruments, but the music everyone can play and hear: the music of humanity, through the instruments of loving, sharing, giving, friendship, and peace."-Eric Johnson
2734) "No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night."-Elie Wiesel, Night
2735) "He saw that all the love in the world, which was sweet and fine, was not love without its work, and that work could not exist without the kindness of hope."-Jack Kerouac
2736) "...you know, what's a way of life without a bumper sticker, really."-Ani DiFranco
2737) "Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."-Lewis Grizzard
2738) "Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it."-Vincent Van Gogh
2739) "In fact the game wouldn't be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen....That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It defines our existence. We are constantly searching--not just for answers to our questions--but also for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge."-Benjamin Sisko
2740) "A lifetime of building emotional barriers...they're very hard to break down."-Jean-Luc Picard
2741) "That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary."-Kira Nerys
2742) "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."-Abraham Lincoln
2743) "I have had wealth, rank, and power; but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be!"-Prince Albert
2744) "There is nothing so powerful as truth--and often nothing so strange."-Daniel Webster
2745) "Don't listen to those who say, 'It's not done that way.' Maybe it's not, but maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, 'You're taking too big a chance.' Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely have been rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says, 'They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections....' I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are your be a person worthy of your own respect."-Neil Simon
2746) "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2747) "Just remember-when you think all is lost, the future remains."-Bob Goddard
2748) "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."-Marie Curie
2749) "In solitude we are least alone."-Lord Byron
2750) "It is the mark of a superior man that, left to himself, he is able to amuse, interest, and entertain himself out of his personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticism. memories, philoshopy, humor and what not."-George Jean Nathan
2751) "Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."-Helen Keller
2752) "It may be that those who do most, dream most."-Stephen Leacock
2753) "For love is a duel."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2754) "Isn't it true that you start life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2755) "i want to draw a big circle around her/ say the proper incantations/ and make the right signs/ so that no evil gets in/ but i don't want to bind her/ with any erasable lines/ and i don't want to frighten her/ with my strange-sounding rituals/ i want to teach her to dance/ how to laugh so loud everyone looks/ i feel she can teach me contentedness/ and serenity/ i have fascinated on her/ and i want our voices to modulate the same/ our smiles to come at the same time/ to share italian food while flirting with waiters/ i want to walk up to her/ scuff my shoes shyly/ and ask her 'will you be my friend?'/ but i don't want to make her skittish/ so i approach her sideways/ eyes down and away/ arm extended with palm up, open, empty/ i sneak little peeks/ when i think she isn't looking/ and hope she doesn't dart away/ she's already teaching me how to pray..."-Jennifer Dawn Crispin
2756) "Surburbia: the place where all the trees are cut down and streets are named after them."
2757) "There's never a pot so crooked that a lid won't fit."
2758) "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"-Jane Austen
2759) "You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself."-John O'Donohue
2760) "Some people care too much; I think it's called love."-A.A. Milne
2761) "I cannot open the windows from the outside without breaking them; but from the inside, you can lift them with ease."-B. Sbragia
2762) "If everybody was blind, no one would know who to hate."
2763) "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degrated state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
2764) "The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between its fighters and its thinkers is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."-Sir William Francis Butler
2765) "Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed is to make any 'good' choice, believe in it, go through with it, and accept the consequences."-Andy Roberts
2766) "Start thinking of *how* it might work instead of why it won't."-quoted from Thalia Zepatos
2767) "In every task that must be done, there is an element of fun. Find the fun, and--snap!--the job's a game!"-Mary Poppins
2768) "We can't imagine storing things anywhere except where our parents stored it."-Bonnie Rice
2769) "Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."-Henry David Thoreau
2770) "As a rule, she or he who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."-Disraeli
2771) "Terrible characteristics can surface in this war over residences. You'd think people were fighting over castles and estates, but no, only shoddy west philadelphia townhouses."-Teneille Brown
2772) "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."-Henry David Thoreau
2773) "For some weird reason I can't satisfactorily explain, this evening whilst I was dining on the usual industrial-waste bullshit the college dining hall slops into our troughs, I got the song 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow' in my head. Maybe it was the festive season that made me start singing it, or maybe I was just singing it to myself because I'm so stuck-up. The tune sounded familiar, and I realized that it's the same melody as this song from my childhood that some of you might've heard of, a little number called 'The Bear Went Over The Mountain.' Sitting there in the dining hall, the lyrics snapped into my head as if they'd never left. 'The bear went over the mountain/ The bear went over the mountain/ The bear went over the mountain/ To see what he could see/ And all that he could see/ And all that he could see/ Was the other side of the mountain/ The other side of the mountain/ The other side of the mountain/ Was all that he could see' Jesus Christ, isn't that depressing? If ever there was a childhood song written specifically to snuff out the desire to achieve great things or aspire to great heights or expand one's knowledge, it's this damn song. Makes an utter mockery of an attempt to broaden one's horizons and try to discover something new. Because all that there is to see is: the other side of the mountain. That's all. It's a punch line. A waste of time. Now I'm all angry at my parents for subjecting me to this kind of subliminal programming as a child. This explains the simultaneity of my academic success and my deep-seated hatred of bears."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
2774) "...it's Finals Week, and by definition it's not supposed to be in any way easy for anyone, so I guess complaining doesn't serve much purpose other than to remind yourself and the others around you how self-absorbed you are. I suppose that's why I like complaining about it so much, because I like being all self-consciously ironic about my own self-absorption and my other faults, because the fact that I admit awareness of my faults and point it out pre-emptively absolves me of any wrongdoing and disqualifies me from any criticism! That's the credo of our modern age, yo."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
2775) "It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations."-Richard P. Feynman
2776) "We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is."-Larry Constantine
2777) "Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me."-Robert Fulghum
2778) "Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks of a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands. The real art is getting them clean again."-Honore de Balzac
2779) "But that would have been insultingly simple. One does not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat."-Dangerous Liasions
2780) "The hardest part about growing up is letting go with what you have been accustomed to and moving on with something that you haven't experienced yet."
2781) "Then you felt like dropping in and just expect me to be free, but now I'm saving all my loving for someone who's loving me."-Gloria Gaynor, "I Will Survive"
2782) "The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you."-Kendall Hailey
2783) "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."-L.P. Hartley
2784) "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."-Dorothy Nevill
2785) "Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbours do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
2786) "'People are all the same.' 'No, don't believe it. People are different. People like to be different.'"-Exodus
2787) "I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me."-Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers
2788) "Sometimes people fill their minds with the stupidest things to keep themselves from thinking about things that are really important."-My So-Called Life
2789) "The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must."-Jeanette Winterson
2790) "We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"-David Foster Wallace
2791) "The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."-Kahlil Gibran
2792) "Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state."-Mark Twain
2793) "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a school...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our Attitude."-Charles Swindoll
2794) "To be great is to be misunderstood..."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2795) "The semester is drawing to a close. It's amazing how a life can be broken down into the space between happenings. Personally, my time is locked into compartments that are labeled with such phrases as 'Between Events', 'Semesterly', 'Between Weekends', 'Between Work Shifts', and 'Between Paychecks'. I spend much of my time preparing for the next happening, going through that happening, and then waiting for the one after."-Kayte Siegle
2796) "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer, I am what I am and you are you too. Do you like what you see? Do you like yourself?"-N. Cherry
2797) "If I look confused it's because I'm thinking."-Samuel Goldwyn
2798) "If you were stuck at the top of a mountain, you'd want a prose-person, not a poetry person, helping you down."-David DeLaura
2799) "Alas! is even love too weak/ To unlock the heart, and let it speak?/ Are even lovers powerless to reveal/ To one another what indeed they feel?/ I knew the mass of men concealed/ Their thoughts, for fear that if revealed/ They would by other men be met/ With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;/ I knew they lived and moved/ Tricked in disguises, alien to the rest/ Of men, and alien to themselves--and yet/ The same heart beats in every human breast!"-Matthew Arnold
2800) "So the President's getting his ass impeached and the US is once again bombing the ass off Iraq. So what. This is the solipsism of the archetypal college student -- as exemplified by I -- during Finals Week. No one cares what's going on in the outside world. I'm not sure a whole lot of people even *know* what's going on in the outside world. You people should see the inside of Clemons Library here at UVa -- that's the library that most students use for studying; it's on a hill, so you enter on the 4th floor and you have to descend this like depths-of-hell stairway down to the massive study areas on the 2nd and 1st floors. (The 3rd floor is closed for big-time renovations, which is causing no small amount of crisis in the area of study space on the other 2 floors.) And the 2nd and 1st floors are absolutely SARDINED with students. You can't see the floor. You can't walk around. All you see are shirts, books, and hair. People are sprawled out in chairs, hunched over tables, curled up in wooden cubicles, all looking in one direction: down at the books. You can detect the stress with all 5 senses. There's only one clock, and it's near the exit. And the library is open 24 hours during Finals Week! My god, the mind reels. It's such a creepy atmosphere, but at the same time there's this palpable feeling of widespread camaraderie, like everyone's in the exact same mode of utter crisis and oppression together, a feeling of belonging the likes of which you never see during the rest of the school year, when no one gives a fuck about anyone else....I don't think I'll go to Clemons, though, because it's only a matter of time before all those studying bastards suck all the oxygen out of that entire building, and I don't care to be party to that hazardous madness."-Scott "Scotch" Herman