2901) "even if I knew the world was coming to an end anyway, I'd still keep fighting. I think if I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."-Abraham Maslow
2902) Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was."-Amy Ray
2903) "As I struggle for acceptance, I gladly embrace tolerance."-Jules Dougherty
2904) "I remember thinking to myself as I woke up in the hospital room, 'Hey, it's just like "ER"! Only no one's quite as cute. Or as witty.'"-Beth Amsel
2905) "...how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2906) "If you live to be one hundred, I want to live to be one hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."-Winnie the Pooh
2907) "A champion is someone who has no legs, but runs the extra mile."- Harrison Ford
2908) "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."-Stone Temple Pilots
2909) "Kids are a self-actualization project for the parent involved. A lifelong Outward Bound. Something for grownups to do, a pastime, a hobby."-Dan Savage, The Kid
2910) "God, please grant me the desire to want more than I can accomplish."-Michelangelo
2911) "I've got a smile on my face and I've got four walls around me/ I've got the sun in the sky, and the water surrounds me/ I'll win now but sometimes I'll lose/ I've been battered, but I'll never bruise...it's not so bad/ And I say way-hey-hey, it's just an ordinary day/ and it's all your state of mind/ At the end of the day,/ you've just got to say...it's all right./ Janie sings on the corner, what keeps her from dying/ Let them say what they want, she won't stop trying/ Oh, you know, she might stumble, if they push her around/ She might fall, but she'll never lie down...it's not so bad/ In this beautiful life there's always some sorrow/ And it's a double edged knife, but there's always tomorrow/ It's up to you now if you sink or swim,/ Just keep the faith that your ship will come in...it's not so bad."-Alan Doyle and Sean McCann, "Ordinary Day"
2912) "Light travels faster than sound. That's why people appear bright until they start to speak."
2913) "The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."
2914) "good friends we make,/ are always at stake;/ people come people go;/ words that we live by are here today & gone tomorrow;/ life is never told by one single person"-Mike Nieman
2915) "Even muddy water settles into clear."
2916) "Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective."-ad in Cosmopolitan
2917) "I can handle humans, you know, as individuals. But once you get them in a group they're just this huge mass of humanity and they're not even individuals anymore."-Caroline Beachy
2918) "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
2919) "Old picture on the shelf, must have been there for a while. Frozen image of ourself, we were acting like a child. Innocent...in a trance, a dance that lasted for a while."-Sister Hazel
2920) "Let us now praise famous men that begat us...There be of them that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them. But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten. With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant. Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes. Their seed shall remain forever, and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth evermore."-Ecclesiastes XLIV
2921) "It takes minutes to have a crush on someone, hours to like someone, and days to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."
2922) "Listen to the waves/ Everything communicates/ Will it ever be/ Anything more/ Than wishful thinking?/ Oh no there you go/ Looked away and missed the show/ How much more wasted time/ Will you survive?/ Feel the blades of grass/ How it brings you back/ It will always be/ Only as green/ As you can see/ Oh yeah fooled again/ I don't know how/ And I don't know when/ Not much else to blame/ But wishful thinking/ Little breakdowns/ In coastal towns/ They come suddenly/ Crashing over you/ They come easily/ I'm falling/ Through the skies/ And frozen places/ And I try to realize/ I needn't look/ Any further/ The whole of the universe/ Is plain to see/ And I try not to rely/ On another world/ Or the future/ The whole of the universe/ Is a mystery/ And it gets me over"-Duncan Sheik, "Wishful Thinking"
2923) "Do not stand at my grave and weep;/ I am not there. I do not sleep./ I am a thousand winds that blow./ I am the diamond's glint on snow./ I am the sunlight on ripened grain./ I am the gentle autumn's rain./ When you awaken in the morning's hush,/ I am the swift uplifting rush/ of quiet birds/ in circled flight./ I am the soft stars that shine at night./ Do not stand on my grave and cry;/ I am not there. I did not die."
2924) "Why should we strive, with cynic frown/ to knock their fairy castles down?"-Eliza Cook
2925) "I don't advocate drug use...I don't advocate anything. People should think for themselves, but they should definitely think."-Stephan Jenkins
2926) "What is Love? Alright. You know how when you're listening to music from another room, and you're singing along, because it's a tune you really love, when the door closes, or a train passes, and you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway, then no matter how much time passes when you hear the music again, you're still in the exact same time. That's what it's like."-Danny, "Music from Another Room on Love"
2927) "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken. You got no guts. You're afraid to say, 'O.K., life's a fact.' People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing. You're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded by Tulip, Texas or Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."-Paul Varjak, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
2928) "I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."-Pablo Neruda
2929) "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."-Wayne Dyer
2930) "An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true."
2931) "People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first."
2932) "In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday."
2933) "You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing."
2934) "Romance is falling, falling, falling...love is being caught."
2935) "If you are experiencing resistance, you must exert some persistence in order to improve your existence."-Malcolm X Trotter
2936) "Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever."-Judge Judy Sheindlin
2937) "She was a young child, yet she seemed an adult as I came to know her. In a group of her blossoming peers she appeared as the beautifully matured rose; a noticeable experience in her every move, a knowledge beyond her years hidden within her far-off gaze. Somehow, she seemed trapped: an adult's cognizance concealed in a discreet masquerade, ostracized by those of her mental capacity and misunderstood by those with her external similarities. Vales of those twice her years covered her young facial canvas. Only a child, always knowing where she'd been but never knowing who she was, a fish trapped within glass aquarium walls."-Victoria Greene
2938) "This screaming silence is swelling, somewhere deep inside./ The flood of tears I once drown in, will once again subside./ I turn to look for you and then I realize.../ This fruitless search is leading to a self-inflicted demise./ Somewhere in the cavity of my ever-aching heart/ Lies a pitiful and stupid girl with whom I cannot part./ I want to take her paper dolls and tear them into shreds./ I want to rip the fantasies from the caverns in her head./ I want to save her pulsing heart from hurt and empty words./ I want to say who gives a shit about bees and flitting birds./ Love is just an alibi to keep us entertained./ A luscious night of passion and a disappearance unexplained./ Leave your precious dreams behind you before you tumble from the clouds/ And end up crashing painfully upon the cold, harsh ground./ Take your paper dolls and send them to an ashen grave./ Close your heart, open your eyes; it's your mind I'm trying to save."-Victoria Greene
2939) "Here is what we know about time:/ Somewhere a sun revolves/ Somewhere a galaxy is born/ Somewhere a page turns on another thousand years/ Here is what we know about our time here today:/ It is never too late/ to hope/ to try/ to believe/ to dare/ to feel/ to live"-Ellen Brenneman
2940) "I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase
2941) "It was getting dark as I came down the hill, swirls of snow sticking to my face. I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad for her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss. But the dog was buried in the clean earth, and the things I had buried were exhuming themselves; clammy fears and dangerous thoughts and the shadows I had put away for a more convenient time. I could not put them away forever, there is always a day of reckoning. But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that."-Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
2942) "Stop and think about it: You have pictures. Pictures are great, adults like pictures, pictures hang in art galleries. And you have words, and words are wonderful things. You can get the Nobel Prize for Literature just by using words. Somehow, as soon as you put them together, you are perceived to be doing something that's either for children or for sub-literates, and there's no reason for that."-Neil Gaiman, Sandman
2943) "Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth."-Francesca Lia Block
2944) "The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong."-Harry Weinberger
2945) "i wish for something to wash over me, taking away invisible scars that so many have left...a wasteland of wrong moves and the times when just letting go and giving in was easier then fighting myself and going in search of a better answer. an answer that could possibly spare me the pain that put me to sleep so easily then, and now keeps me awake."-Amber Moffitt
2946) "Whoever fights monsters should see that in the process he does not become a monster himself. And when you look into an abyss the abyss also looks at you."-Neizteche
2947) "You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work."-Werner Erhard
2948) "But every time I pin down what I think I want it slips away - the ghost slips away"-Rivers Cuomo, "Butterfly"
2949) "I guess you're as real as me/ maybe I can live with that/ maybe I need fantasy/ a life of chasing Butterfly"-Rivers Cuomo, "Butterfly"
2950) "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."-Joe Aucis
2951) "When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?"-John Irving, The Cider House Rules
2952) "What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses."-John Irving, The Cider House Rules
2953) "And the thing about being in loveis that you can't force anyone. It's natural to want someone you love you do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hardbecause you often feel like interfering-you want to be the one who makes the plans."-John Irving, The Cider House Rules
2954) "I can't believe a year's gone by/ since you told me you couldn't be with me/ cuz you loved me too much/ and we had one last dance to Fumbling Towards Ecstasy/ and then you kissed me and then you left/ Sarah McLachlan. Took me five months to listen to that album again A year since we went out to LA for Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk/ in the elevator you pushed my hand away/ and I felt something inside my brain go thunk/ Homophobia. Internalized./ But now i've got perspective, see/ 365 days of thinkin' it through/ and I realize I'm still pissed off/ even though I'm over you/ I'm pissed off at the right-wing thugs and their evil, fanatic Perjury/ seems half this country could use a kind of special plastic surgery/ Christ-o-suction/ Now, don't get me wrong/ he had a pretty groovy world view/ and was one of the greatest teachers by far/ but it gets annoying when all I hear some people saying is/ 'What Would Jesus Do?'/ and I'm like/ what, for a Klondike bar?/ And then I think/ What WOULD Jesus do/ if he were to come back and visit someday/ to see his words twisted and mangled and used for violence/ I think he'd turn over in his grave/ Or maybe rise above it/ It's almost Easter, I guess we'll see/ And speaking of Easter, did you know it started out/ as a Pagan celebration of nature's rebirth/ the Goddess Esther, she sound familiar?/ It was a time to give thanks to our great mother Earth/ But some folks are real good at appropriation/ and making us slowly forget about life/ the way it was before their translation/ when they conveniently forgot the first name of Lot's Wife/ and that Lilith came before Eve/ and that God is love, and that means ALL love/ even that between Adam and Steve/ or between you and me/ So, yeah, everyone's entitled to their own opinion/ and I don't wanna start a fight/ but I know, at least in this case/ I'm right"-Arjuna Greist, "Talkin' Anniversary Blues"
2955) "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is incomprehensible."-Albert Einstein
2956) "What a waste it would be after 4 billion tortuous years of evolution if the dominant organism contrived its own self-destruction."-Carl Sagan
2957) "When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us."-Hermann Hesse
2958) "Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."-Sydney J. Harris
2959) "If you don't try, then there is no experience."-Nicholas Marchan
2960) "I don't want to see all the bad things so I close my eyes and imagine all the good things, but I still know the bad things are there so I squint every now and then to look around."-Bradley McMillian
2961) "Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."- Robert Ingersoll
2962) "He who asks a question is a fool for a minute, he who doesn't is a fool forever."-Confucius
2963) "You can burn a candle at both ends and get twice the light, but only for half the time."-Cecil Canton
2964) "This is where I came from./ I passed this way./ This should not be shameful/ Or hard to say./ A self is a self./ It is not a screen./ A person should respect/ What he has been."-James Fenton, "The Ideal" from Out of Danger
2965) "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
2967) "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."-Margaret Thatcher
2968) "If you think rolling in the mud will help you look like a small black cloud, you are wrong. You'll still look like you--only dirtier."-Eeyore
2969) "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages."-Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
2970) "Good teachers are costly. Bad teachers cost more."-Bob Talbert
2971) "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love."-Sophia Loren
2972) "If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know."-Johann Caspar Lavater
2973) "There is only work and love in life.... If we are fortunate, we love our work. If we are wise, we are willing to work at love."-Noah ben Shea
2974) "Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."-Haim G. Ginott
2975) "Being empathic is a complex, demanding, and strong--yet also, a subtle and gentle--way of being."-Carl Rogers
2976) "It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners."-Erma Bombeck
2977) "She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell."-Marita Bonner
2978) "Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."- James Russell Lowell
2979) "Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."-Plato
2980) "When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."-Malcolm Forbes
2981) "We stand in the rain in a long line/ waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work./ You know what work is--if you're/ old enough to read this you know what/ work is, although you may not do it./ Forget you. This is about waiting,/ shifting from one foot to another./ Feeling the light rain falling like mist/ into your hair, blurring your vision/ until you think you see your own brother/ ahead of you, maybe ten places./ You rub your glasses with your fingers,/ and of course it's someone else's brother,/ narrower across the shoulders than/ yours but with the same sad slouch, the grin/ that does not hide the stubbornness,/ the sad refusal to give in to/ rain, to the hours wasted waiting,/ to the knowledge that somewhere ahead/ a man is waiting who will say, 'No,/ we're not hiring today,' for any/ reason he wants. You love your brother,/ now suddenly you can hardly stand/ the love flooding you for your brother,/ who's not beside you or behind or/ ahead because he's home trying to/ sleep off a miserable night shift/ at Cadillac so he can get up/ before noon to study his German./ Works eight hours a night so he can sing/ Wagner, the opera you hate most,/ the worst music ever invented./ How long has it been since you told him/ you loved him, held his wide shoulders,/ opened your eyes wide and said those words,/ and maybe kissed his cheek? You've never/ done something so simple, so obvious,/ not because you're too young or too dumb,/ not because you're jealous or even mean/ or incapable of crying in/ the presence of another man, no,/ just because you don't know what work is."-Philip Levine, What Work Is
2982) "The more you love, the more you'll find that life is sweet and friends are kind."-Radiophonic Oddity
2983) "I can't tell you this. I can't do this, talk about down there. You just know it's there. Like the cellar. There's rumbles down there sometimes. You can hear the pipes, and things get caught there, little animals and things, and it gets wet, and sometimes people have to come and plug up the leaks. Otherwise, the door stays closed. You forget about it. I mean, it's part of the house, but you don't see it or think about it. It has to be there, though, 'cause every house needs a cellar. Otherwise the bedroom would be in the basement."-Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
2984) "They have tried to censor the word [vagina] whenever The Vagina Monologues has traveled and in every form of communication: in ads in major newspapers, on tickets sold in department stores, on banners that hang in front of the theaters, on box-office phone machines where the voice says only 'Monologues' or 'V. Monologues.' 'Why is this,' I ask? 'Vagina is not a pornographic word; it's actually a medical word, a term for a body part, like "elbow," "hand," or "rib."' 'It may not be pornographic,' people say, 'but it's dirty. What if our daughters were to hear it, what would we tell them?' 'Maybe you could tell them that they have a vagina,' I say. 'If they don't already know it. Maybe you could celebrate that.'"-Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
2985) "words, the ultimate relativity. without words, what is meaning. still, too many mean nothing at all."-Tina
2986) "In order to succeed we must first believe that we can."-Michael Korda
2987) "When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half."-Gracie Allen
2988) "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."-B.B. King
2989) "Every exit is an entry somewhere."-Tom Stoppard
2990) "Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."-Vernon Law
2991) "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."-Erma Bombeck
2992) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."-Erica Jong
2993) "The best career advice given to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."-Katherine Whitehorn
2994) "The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy."-Commercial Appeal
2995) "I want somebody who can hold my interest, hold it and never let it fall. Somebody who can flatten me with a kiss that hits like a fist, or a sentence that stops me like a brick wall."-Ani DiFranco
2996) "You're about to embark on a great adventure for which you are superbly prepared. You have everything you need to succeed at work and at life: brains, education, drive (but not to a fault), personality, an interested (sometimes maybe TOO interested, right?) family for emotional support, wide-ranging interests, a sense of curiosity, and great beauty. You can be in control of events, or you can be controlled by events. Just keep your eyes open, trust your instincts, and conduct yourself in such a way that you can always be true to yourself. 'This above all: To thine own self be true. And it shall follow as the night the day, that thou canst not then be false to any man.' (Polonius' advice to his son, Laertes, from Hamlet.)"-Lawrence W. Lipman
2997) "One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2998) "Since Congress doesn't like this president we need to pick another one...and your vote counts. (For now...) Here's the scoop on the three leading candidate characteristics. Candidate A: associates with ward thugs and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day. Candidate B: was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of brandy every evening. Candidate C: is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any illicit affairs. Candidate D: is a life time bureaucrat and politician. He was kicked out of college once. Contributes to a white supremacist news letter and was voted man of the year by the Tennesee chapter of the KKK. Which of these candidates is your choice? Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Candidate B is Winston Churchill. Candidate C is Adolph Hitler. Candidate D is Trent Lott. Kind of Scary..."-forward
2999) "...I think the important thing is not what your image is but whether people are understanding what it is."-Amy Ray
3000) "Each moment is a new life."-Bruce Heckathorn