3101) "...if you approach everything as an adventure then when things go wrong it us simply more exciting which equals more fun!"-Deborah Millstein
3102) "Aesthetics have replaced ethics, so that stealing is no longer immoral, but being ugly and fat is."-Gianna Schelotto, psychologist
3103) "Total abssence of humor renders life impossible."-Colette
3104) "I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say."-Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
3105) "I often wonder how it is that she can still be alive if my mother is dead, how it can be that my mother is dead if her friend is still so alive. It doesn't seem possible that one person can just be gone like that and another can still be here, shopping in the same shops or walking along the same pavements or drinking tea out of the very same cups even, but it is, it's the most possible, most everyday thing in the world."-Ali Smith, Other Stories and other stories
3106) "...this is the strangest thing about travelling, that when we get back these rooms and these cities will mean more to us than they do while we're actually here in them; the carrier-bags with the names of museums, art galleries, shops on them will mean more than this does, this lying in a room in just another place breathing its warmed-up air."-Ali Smith, Other Stories and other stories
3107) "Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible; we keep unaltered as much of our own knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."-William James
3108) "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye; the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
3109) "We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced."-Herbert Spencer
3110) "Leadership cannot really be taught, it can only be learned."-Harold Geneen
3111) "Dr. Goin cited the case of a man who was using his health insurance for psychotherapy to treat alcoholism. His employer found out about it through his company records, called him into his office and lectured him sternly. The employee was so devastated by this experience, Dr. Goin said, that he began drinking again, even though he had not used alchohol for several years."-D. Sobel
3112) "[In a conversation with a suicidal man threatening to jump off a bridge,] I said, 'Are you a Christian or a Jew?' He said, 'A Christian.' I said, 'Me too. Protestant or Catholic?' He said, 'Protestant.' I said, 'Me too. What franchise?' He says, 'Baptist.' I said, 'Me too. Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?' He says, 'Northern Baptist.' I said, 'Me too. Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?' He says, 'Northern Conservative Baptist.' I said, 'Me too. Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist or Northern Conservative Reformed Baptist?' He says, 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist.' I said, 'Me too. Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Eastern Region?' He says, '. Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region' I said, 'Me too. Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1879 or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1912?' He says, Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist, Great Lakes Region, Council of 1912.' I said, 'Die, heretic!' and I pushed him over."-Emo Phillips, comedian
3113) "Sometimes I tell a stranger all about you. They just smile patiently with disbelief. I always knew you would succeed no matter what you tried, and I know you did it all in spite of me."-Morphine, "In Spite of Me"
3114) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
3115) "Be nice to everyone on your way to the top, cause you will always pass them on your way down."
3116) "Keep in mind the person that came up with the old adage, 'sticks and stones may brake my bones but words will never hurt me' was obviously deaf!"
3117) "To be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
3118) "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."-Ranger Marcus Cole on "Babylon 5"
3119) "If love is worth less because it doesn't last forever, then life must be worth less for the same reason."-Henrik Oldin
3120) "I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend."-Tori Amos
3121) "I've found a way to make you/ I've found a way/ a way to make you smile/ I read bad poetry/ into your machine./ I save your messages/ just to hear your voice./ you always listen carefully/ to awkward rhymes./ you always say your name,/ like I wouldn't know it's you,/ at your most beautiful./ I've found a way to make you/ I've found a way/ a way to make you smile/ at my most beautiful/ I count your eyelashes, secretly./ with every one, whisper I love you./ I let you sleep./ I know you're closed eye watching me,/ listening./ I thought I saw a smile."-Michael Stipe, "At My Most Beautiful"
3122) "When you're around someone so much, for so long, they become a part of you, and when they change or go away, you don't know who you are without them."-Sarah Headley
3123) "When someone you love abandons you, it doesn't hurt just because they've changed, or lied, or went back on their promises, but because you know what they really are and what a beautiful person they can be. And when they take that away from you and won't let you see that beautiful person again, well nothing hurts more than having someone just decide to take your entire world away without consulting you first."-Sarah Headley
3124) "Some people never understand, no matter how many times you explain vit."-Sarah Headley
3125) "It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is High School."-Ferris Bueller in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
3126) "The expert in anything was once a beginner."
3127) "Take back your life. Let me inside. We'll find the door....if you care, if you care to anymore."-Kevin Griffin, "Desperately Wanting"
3128) "Cut me out of this role, I can't play it anymore. There must be something in the water here. Give me up, I confess I feel as though I'm living less. The strangest gravity affects my weight. 'Cause I was born incomplete, drowning in the brevity, kinda like the road you're travelin' on. Everything in two's, you often lose. You make me whole again. Everything in two's, you never knew, you'd make me whole again. Someone said, someone wrote, we're floating tethered to a rope. So complicate me, I could use the weight. In how you move the scenery, lover, how you mirror me. But stop me if you've heard it all before. And now and again, you find yourself over your head. In a cynical time, in you I find a reason to live. Cut me out of this role, I can't play it anymore. It must be something in the water here."-Kevin Griffin, "Everything in Two's"
3129) "Cryptic? Elemental. You transcend when you succumb. One last shred of frailty left, embedded in our bones."-Kevin Griffin, "Particle"
3130) "You know you're doing well when your GPA is higher than the number of hours you get to sleep at night."
3131) "...several years ago, when I was maybe 15 or 16, I went with my family on a living-beyond-our-means summer vacation to Maui, and one night we went to this elegant-but-rustic Hawaiian seafood cuisine place, one of the sort of establishments that absolutely *litter* the islands and from what little we experienced usually seem to be pretty consistently good. Open-air, view of the ocean, natural lighting, wood, slow ceiling fans. On our table, amid the usual salt and pepper, was a small bottle of soy sauce. We were all talking. The mood was jovial and vacation-style carefree, perhaps tarnished a bit on the surface level by the ever-present warnings from Mom and Dad, ever the watchdogs of dinner-table propriety, for my younger brother and I to not put our elbows on the table. We were talking family talk, i.e. my brother and I still sort of saw our parents as parental, smile-when-you-speak-to-me authority figures, and not just normal people who we could just talk to, the way we can now. But my brother and I were raised on my Dad's goofy sense of humor, and there was never anything wrong with barrages of bad puns or weary old catchphrase punch lines or inter-family-talk antics, even at the dinner table, even when out to eat, so what happened was I decided to indulge in a simple goofy antic and I just for no reason at all in the middle of some innocent family talk grabbed the soy sauce bottle and made like a 'yummy' sound and lifted the bottle to my lips and tilted it back and made as if to drink it all down with great and hearty cheer. Except the bottle wasn't exactly closed. Is what I swiftly found out. It had a cap on it, but the cap had a hole on either side, the way all soy sauce restaurant bottles do, like to facilitate easy pouring, so air goes in through one hole and sauce pours out the other. And soy sauce is just brackish fermented soy beans in brine, dark brown and very runny. So of course the soy sauce in question immediately hosed on out of the bottle like all over my lap, decorating the general nether-region area of my light gray teenager-caliber shorts with a big sopping brackish brown stain. What's more -- and this is the bit that makes the whole story worth telling because of the way it taps into everyone's deep-rooted self-conscious fears about the way they appear to others -- is that my family had absolutely *no way of knowing* that I was trying to pantomime drinking the sauce. They had no way of knowing that I was indulging in a simple goofy antic for the table's general amusement. What they saw was just me picking up the bottle of soy sauce and without hesitation pouring it unceremoniously into my lap. In an instant. With a look on my face of total calm. As though it was the most natural thing in the world, the pouring of soy in the lap. That was what they saw. My Mom, Dad, and younger brother just sat there, looking at me, sort of shocked beyond their ability to find ways to come to grips with what they'd apparently just witnessed -- and I, after an instantly horrified yelp of realization, the future anecdotal-entertainment value of the affair entirely lost on me, slammed the now-half-empty bottle back onto the table and sat there, under metric tons of embarrassment, with warm soy seeping into my underwear, trying to figure out what to do next."-Scott "Scotch" Herman, "Brackish Fermented Soy Beans In Brine And How I Dumped It In My Lap"
3132) "A true friend can tell you exactly what you need to hear, precisely when you don't want to hear it, and still remain your friend afterwards."-Amanda Bowen
3133) "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."-Harvey Mackay
3134) "Nothing is certain in London but expense."-William Sherstone, Curiosities of Literature
3135) "The way to see London is from the top of a bus--the top of a bus, gentlemen."-William Gladstone
3136) "All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough. They'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. They will tell you no. And YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."-Nike ad
3137) "No trumpets sound when the important desisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently."
3138) "Our lives are frittered away by details. Simplify. Simplify."-Benjamin Franklin
3139) "Half the things we say today get hurled back as a quote."-Mary Gauthier, "A Different Kind of Gone"
3140) "But other than that, how did you like the show, Mrs. Lincoln?"
3141) "...for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature."-Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
3142) "When someone is seeking...it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose."-Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
3143) "She thought about him every now and then, when she was doing anything other than thinking about him. Walking down the street, sitting on the Tube, attending a lecture, and boom! there he was, penetrating her mind. Simple reminders of a forgotten romance, what could have been, what might have been, had things been different."-Andrea Lipman
3144) "Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3145) "He circled along in his warm skin, happy again because he was free and because he belonged. All of one's life is a struggle towards that; the narrow path between freedom and belonging. I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3146) "I live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3147) "What is there to say about love? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3148) "'Come again?' she asked. Yes tomorrow, under the sodium street lights, under the tick of the clock. Under my obligations, my history, my fears, this now. This fizzy, all consuming now. I will not let time lie to me. I will not listen to dead voices or unborn pain. 'What if?' has no power against 'What if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you. Let them prate, those scorn-eyed anti-romantics. Love is not the oil and I am not the machine. Love is you and here and I am. Now."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3149) "Habit has silenced me the way habit does. So used to a thing no need to speak it, so well known the action no need to describe it."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3150) "She realised that the only war worth fighting was the one that raged within; the rest were all diversions. In this small space, her hunting miles, she was going to bring herself home. Home was not a place for the faint-hearted; only the very brave could live with themselves."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3151) "Heaven or Hell in the hereafter will be luggage or the lack of it. The ones who recognised that love is enough and that possessions are borrowed pastimes, will float free through the exit sign, their arms ready to hug their friends, their toothbrush in their pocket. The ones who stayed up late, gathering and gathering like demented bees, will find that you can take it with you. The joke is that you have to carry it yourself."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3152) "Stop thinking...The more you think, the faster you cut your own throat. What is there to think about? It always ends up the same way. In your mind there is a bolted door. You have to work hard not to go near that door. Parties, lovers, career, charity, babies, who cares what it is, so long as you avoid the door. There are times, when I am on my own, fixing a drink, walking upstairs, when I see the door waiting for me. I have to stop myself pulling the bolt and turning the handle. Why? On the other side of the door is a mirror, and I will have to see myself. I'm not afraid of what I am. I'm afraid I will see what I am not."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3153) "I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about re-reading books that have meant a lot to me."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3154) "It is not necessary to prolong life; life prolongs itself."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3155) "There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewerage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart that can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. What more? The hate, envy, malice, greed, stupidity and evil that lies under the floor of everything. If I have secrets so do you."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3156) "I have noticed how much talk there is of openness these days which must mean there is a great deal more to hide."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3157) "How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough?"-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3158) "Into the clockwise universe the quantum child. Why doesn't every mother believe her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. Here we are still looking for a saviour and hundreds are being born every second. Look at it, this tiny capsule of new life, indifferent to your prejudices, your miseries, unmindful of the world already made. Make it again? They could if we let them, but we make sure they grow up just like us, fearful like us. Don't let them know the potential that they are. Don't let them hear the grass singing. Let them live and die in Newton, tick-tock, the last breath."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3159) "What you risk reveals what you value."-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3160) "I am inadequate, I know, not to have read the small print, but if it is so important, one of those important things, why do they not put it in LARGE PRINT, like this, so that everyone will see how the details conspire to tell quite a different story to the plot?"-Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places
3161) "The 'self' is not a static entity but a process which undergoes frequent, or constant change throughout the life of the individual..."-Windy Dryden and Jack Gordon, Rational Emotive Therapy: A Handy and Practical Guide
3162) "The strength of our future, lies in the protecting of our past."-Seminole Elder
3163) "Call on God, but row away from the rocks."-Indian Proverb
3164) "It does not require many words to speak the truth."-Joseph, Nez Perce
3165) "The equal right to live and blossom is an intuitively clear and obvious value axiom."-Arne Naess
3166) "Spiritual growth begins when we cease to understand or see ourselves as isolated and narrow competing egos and begin to identify with other humans."-Bill Devall
3167) "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."-T.S. Eliot
3168) "Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come."-definition by the Compte de Montesquieu
3169) "We take great pains to persuade others that we are happy, rather than in endeavoring to be so."-Confucius
3170) "There is often the look of an angel on the Devil himself."-Irish saying
3171) "You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip."-Jonathan Carroll
3172) "It is the power of music to carry us directly into the mental state of the composer."-Gary Oldman in Immortal Beloved
3173) "I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an ADULT. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 5 year old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them. I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer day. I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset. I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. Somewhere in my youth, I matured and I learned too much. I learned of nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, starvation and abused children. I learned of lies, unhappy marriages, suffering, illness, pain and death. I learned of a world where men left their families to go and fight for our country, and returned only to end up living on the streets, begging for their next meal. I learned of a world where children knew how to kill...and did!! What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live forever, because we didn't grasp the concept of death? When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball? I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence and deceit. I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was. I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I could find. I would spend my afternoons climbing trees and riding my bike. I didn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind and making angels in the snow. I want to be 5 again."-forward, "I want to be 5 again!"
3174) "There is no great genius without a touch of madness"- Nijinsky
3175) "You die only when you stop living." -Isidoro Mazzara
3176) "There's music in the sighing of a reed,/ There's music in the gushing of a rill,/ There's music in all things, if men had ears."-Byron
3177) "Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places."-Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
3178) "Now to retrace my steps to Babylon on the Hudson. Back to the place where the air destroys your lungs and the football behind you might belong to the hand that slits your throat. Back to where glitzy Broadway hosts the suburbs nightly and calls it the theater. Back to where slick glossies pounce on flesh and serve it up monthly to the nation's subscription cannibals. Back to where millions of us live side by side in rotting honeycombs and never say hello. Polluted, packed, putrid, it's the only place where I have any room, any hope. I got to go back and stick it out. At least in New York City I can be more than a breeder of the next generation."-Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
3179) "Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself. But I knew better on all counts."-Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
3180) "I try to work on my memory. A few things come back to me when I concentrate. Like, I'm pretty sure I had parents. I have these old people who are my parents now, and they say they were also my parents then. I'm thirty-six. I was a little girl. I know because my parents say I was."-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3181) "I'd better not get too comfortable in my ¾ of an inch recline because toward the end of the flight, the flight attendant is going to say, 'You're going to have to put your seat in the upright position for landing.' They're so adamant about that every single time, like that's gonna make a difference. Because if we crash, the investigators are going to say, 'Oh, that's a shame, her seat was reclined ¾ of an inch. When will they learn? What was that-thirty thousand feet? She could have made that. Sheesh. If only she'd been upright.'"-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3182) "I wish I were taller/ And had perfect legs/ And had hair easier to fix/ And was a man/ Sometimes I do/ But not really/ But sometimes/ But not a lot/ Just a little/ Once in a while/ O.K. only once/ When I had to use the restroom/ And somebody was in the ladies' room so it was locked/ And the men's was open but I was too chicken to go in/ So I wished I was a man then/ Just that one time."-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3183) "It is unfair to be judged by appearances. Even though I don't wear skirts, I know I'm a girl. Of course, I forget that sometimes. Wait a minute, I should clear that up. I can already see some reviewer singling that quote out. I don't forget that I'm a girl-I know I'm a girl (I've got two x chromosomes and I'm not afraid to use them)-but I think of myself as a human being first, just a person. I'm a person who's a woman, and I don't like dresses or panty hose or heels. I guess you could chuckle and say that I'm a woman trapped in a woman's body. But, if you did say that, nobody would know what you meant, and probably more than one person would ask you to kindly stop chuckling."-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3184) "I think in the seventies we really had some songs that were just idiotic songs, and the lyrics were clear as can be. Do you remember that song by Three Dog Night, 'Joy to the World'? It started off with 'Jeremiah was a bullfrog.' It was catchy, so you wanted to sing. And then we were hooked, and we were just singing along 'Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Was a good friend of mine. I never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine.' Of course that made perfect sense to us. Why should we question that? We've all had friends who were frogs. We didn't fully understand what they were saying, but if it seemed like that wanted you to help them drink some wine, you did it. They would always have some mighty fine wine with 'em too. Frogs could get ahold of that stuff."-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3185) "In a public bathroom you're in your own little private stall, actually going to the bathroom. For some reason either you forgot to lock the door, or the lock is gone. Suddenly, a perfect stranger opens the door on you. They look at you. You always look at them the same way (sort of a cross between a deer caught in the headlights and a deer caught doing something else, I'm not sure what.) They close it immediately and always say, 'Oh, I'm sorry.' Then we say, 'It's okay.' We don't mean this. I think we'd be surprised if they turned around and came back in, actually. 'Oh-oh!' 'You said it was all right. Get Julie! This is Julie. And you are? There's no need to holler. Let's go Julie. Yeah, she said it was okay, I wouldn't have just walked in.' It's just so scary if there's no lock on that door; you're so vulnerable at that time. You're scared someone's going to push the door open on you. Imagine if someone had an aerial view of what we looked like in there, trying to keep the door shut. The positions that we have ourselves in. Then we have the 'em-em' noise, that territory cough that we use. Somehow it scares people away. 'Eeemmmm.' But, even if there is a lock, there are some people who will continue to try to open the door until you say, 'Somebody's in here.' What are they thinking? 'It's just stuck, I know it. Just somebody's shoes they left in there earlier. Get the ramrod, this one is tight.'"-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3186) "Do you ever run out of room on the front of the letter you're writing then write 'Over' on the bottom of the letter? We're not giving the person getting the letter much credit. It's not like if it wasn't there, they'd get to the bottom of the page, '"and so Kathy and I went shopping and we-" Now that's the craziest thing. I don't know why she just ended that way. I hope nothing happened to her. She managed to seal the envelope. She must have gotten it to a mailbox somehow. Could it be this way? On the back? Never mind, don't call her, I found it. It was on the back. I followed the arrow.'"-Ellen Degeneres, My Point...And I Do Have One
3187) "I'm amazed that anyone gets along! When you think of idiosyncracies, unconscious projections, restimulations from the past, and the relationship history of your partner, it's stunning that love works."-SARK, Succulent Wild Woman
3188) "Life is something set to music..."-Heather Nova
3189) "My love for you's so strong/ That no one could kill it - not even you."-Anna Akhamatova
3190) "I love you without knowing how, or/ when or from where./ I love you straightforwardly, without/ complexities or pride;/ so I love you because I know no other way/ than this: where I does not exist, nor you,/ so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,/ so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep." ("Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,/ te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:/ así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,/ sino así de este modo en que soy ni eres,/ tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía,/ tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.")-Pablo Neruda, "One hundred Sonnets of Love XVII"
3191) "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."-Katharine Hepburn
3192) "You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you."-E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
3193) "Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
3194) "How can we communicate love? I think three things are involved: We must reach out to a person, make contact. We must listen with the heart, be sensitive to the other's needs. We must respond in a language that the person can understand. Many of us do all the talking. We must learn to listen and keep on listening."-Princess Pale Moon
3195) "I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free."-Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
3196) "We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
3197) "Real friends stab you in the front"-Oscar Wilde
3198) "I chose a road of passion and pain. Sacrificed too much and vwaited in vain. Gave up my power and ceased being queen. Addicted to love like the drug of a fiend. Misled I bled till the poison was gone. And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn."
3199) "who needs drugs? I'm overdosing on life as it is... music is a most powerful dope, and the best part is, I remember it all!"-Arjuna Greist
3200) "To the world I may be one person, but to one person I may be the world."