3201) "Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases, and pleases where it goes."
3202) "My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it *was*, you're lucky to get out alive."-Angela on My So-Called Life
3203) "Anger is only one letter short of danger."
3204) "At night, people are what they were intended to be, not what they have become."
3205) "If you're going through hell, keep going."-Winston Churchill
3206) "If all you look for is the float with Miss America on it, the whole parade will pass you by."-Eddie on Family Matters
3207) "There's more to life than breathing."-Zenobia Beaye
3208) "Outside of a dog, a book's a man's best friend, inside a dog it's too dark to read."-Groucho Marx
3209) "Why not be in a good mood?...It's better than being in a bad one!!" -Daina Barcia
3210) ''What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will of power, power itself in man.''-Nietsche
3211) ''Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure....''-Lord Byron
3212) "He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong ......''-Nietzsche
3213) ''No man can justly censor or condemn another because no man truly knows another.''-Sir Thomas Browne
3214) "For attractive lips, speak words of kindness./ For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people./ For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry./ For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day./ For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone .../ People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed/ and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed./ Never throw out anybody./ Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm./ As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands./ One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."-Audrey Hepburn, "Beauty Tips"
3215) "Even with so much time passing between these sorts of events, they always clip her, and then make her sorry for herself, and then for the person locked in place against her, and then for everyone, for the benighted planet. Now, though, she has only gotten to the part where she's sorry she and Laurel won't be able to catch up with each other and find a little bit of their old coloring book camaraderie."-Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine
3216) "Oh, oh, here comes a trample!"-Roz Woodings' three-year-old son while walking along a very busy street and seeing the advancing crowds
3217) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."-Marcel Proust
3218) "The good son's character reflects the Father's nature; the wayward son's character reflects the Father's desires."-the "Author"
3219) "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."-Mark Twain
3220) "What's the point in all this screaming/ No one's listening anyways."-Goo Goo Dolls
3221) "I go to sleep on my side/ But I wake up on your side/ Of the bed."-Lawrence W. Lipman, "Since You're Gone"
3222) "All I do/ is write to you, all day/ and I'm given, now,/ to dreams I dream with eyes wide open,/ softly pulsing daydreams/ slowly climbing to my mind like puppies/ sniffing halting pathways up stairs/ ane fluff then tow/ then dozens in their wake,/ with insistent whimpers/ and puppy-grins/ at the top./ The daydreams slip in and take over,/ the way fog comes rolling up the Hudson,/ licks and kisses at Manhattan,/ scrapes its belly along the rooftops/ before sliding in like a lover,/ stretching limbs to pull/ down streets and avenues."-Kayte Siegle
3223) "Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine... Which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."-Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"
3224) "I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."-Thomas Edison
3225) "Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional."-Rich Yarnot
3226) "Love is like a lost article, it shows up when and where you least expect it."-Sarah Le Jeune
3227) "...suddenly a new feeling washes over me-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. I have this feeling no room is ever really quiet; this feeling that even in the quietest, emptiest, and most uneventful of rooms there is always an event of profound importance occurring. This event is Time itself, foaming, raging, and boiling like a river, roaring through this room and through all rooms-Time flowing through the beds, gushing from the minibars and churning from the mirrors, and Time, with its grand, unfightable sweep, taking me along with it."-Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
3228) "You never know how you look through other people's eyes."
3229) "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."-Isak Dinesen
3230) "Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others."
3231) "Be friendly with the folks you know. If it weren't for them you would be a total stranger."
3232) "A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive."-Walt Disney
3233) "I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet."-She's Come Undone
3234) "Chance meetings, unexpected coincidences, premonitions that come true, sudden fulfillment of wishes, flashes of unpredictable joy, a sense of deep knowingness, the dawn of trust--all of these are shapes reality can take as it coaxes us out of our self made prisons."-The Way of the Wizard
3235) "I pretend not to notice/ whenever you're around/ It's like I'm always falling/ but I never hit the ground"-WJKT
3236) "a hundred times i tried to hear you singing/ a dozen times i tried to hold your hand/ once i think i even tried to kiss you/ but there's only so much i can do inside my head"-WJKT, unfinished song
3237) "Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would like better than to hold on to him forever. But I know it's not for the best. So know how matter how much my heart is going to break, I've got to let him go so he can know just how much I love him. Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll come backbut if not, I can make it through this."-Meaghan Munson
3238) "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."-Dr. Johnson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3239) "Love is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear."-Donald E. Wildman, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul
3240) "We are just a biological speculation, sittin' here vibratin'. And we don't know what we're vibratin' about."-George Clinton
3241) "One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed. No one can lay a hand on our dreams."
3242) True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know he'll be in your mind and heart forever."
3243) "Dreams never hurt anybody. If you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can."
3244) "Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection, that we forget that imperfection is happiness."-Karen Nave
3245) "Life is just like hitting a softball...make up your mind and follow through, but be sure to watch for change-ups and sliders."
3246) "If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done."-Michael S. Traylor
3247) "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."-Gen. George Patton
3248) "I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way."-Jayson Feinburg
3249) "Better to be occasionally cheated that perpetually suspicious."-B.C. Forbes
3250) "There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve."-Mike Leavitt
3251) "If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying about one year ago today."-E. Joseph Cossman
3252) "The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."-Japanese Proverb
3253) "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
3254) "Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel betterand yetYou are sure to be happy again."-Abraham Lincoln
3255) "When people find a place to stick a label/ They end up looking at the label./ When someone smart enough and loving enough/ Takes the risk and transcends labels/ A little breathing room is created/ For miracles to happen."-Tom Neff
3256) "labels are necessary for us to communicate with one another, but we must regard them as a *starting point* for beginning to understand each other. i can sit here all day (you know i can) and rattle off a whole bunch of categories i fit into.... 'well, i'm a feminist, environmentalist, vegetarian, student, activist, musician, daughter, sister, lover, friend, dancer, artist, writer, liberal, bisexual lesbian...' And that can tell you a HELLOVALOT about me! but it DOESN'T tell you that I was up until 5 this morning thinking about how much I miss Hannah, or that I grew up on an organic farm, or that my mother is a clown, or that I like to cook, or that I go to Pitzer college in CA, or that sometimes when I listen to Dar on my stereo I break down crying because it's so beautiful. Our mission should not be to get rid of labels, it should be to make sure that we are committed to taking them for what they are, and then moving above, beyond, and underneath them to the good stuff they are stuck to. One label can tell you something about me. 10 labels can tell you more. Hopefully, they'll tell you something that will make you interested enough in me to want to spend an evening talking to me or reading my poetry or listening to my music, so you can learn all the stuff that labels can't even begin to touch."-Arjuna Greist
3257) "Everything is relative to 0."-Susan Epperley
3258) "Sex...it's every man's screensaver, the thing his mind returns to when it's not otherwise seriously occupied."-Glamour
3259) "You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad/ He learned it all from his/ And his dad just happened to be/ Wrong about everything"-Dan Bern, "Hannibal"
3260) "I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be."-Marilyn vos Savant
3261) "To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's finding meaning in the suffering"-DMX
3262) "And everybody made such a big deal about the fact that it was 'sweet sixteen' and it seemed so stupid that a girl has to be sixteen and seventeen and everybody gushes over her like this is the big high point of her life. When boys are sixteen nobody cares. They get drunk and crash their cars and get in any kind of trouble they want. They can have pimples and smell bad because nothing matters for them until they grow up and have important jobs bossing people around. But if you're a girl, everybody says you're blossoming, you're so beautiful, here let's take a picture so when you're old and ugly you can look back and remember."-Blake Nelson, Girl
3263) "And it was so weird because no matter how much you hate popular people, the minute they like you you like them right back. It was a terrible thing to find out about yourself and a terrible situation to be in and the more I smiled and laughed with everyone the more terrible I felt."-Blake Nelson, Girl
3264)"I wanted to tell you I still love you, it came out 'call if you ever need to talk.'"-Arjuna Greist, "Moment"
3265) "It's not about who you love, it's about why you love them."
3266) "Never count your friends on sunny days for they all will be around,/ Count your friends on the rainy days when the clouds are grey and lightning shakes the ground./ It is then you painfully see the type of friend they really are,/ when Life delivers a sharp blow do they stay and try to heal the scar?/ The friends you count during this storm are ones to commend, / these people stood their ground these people are labeled 'True Friend'./ When the rain finally stops and your new day is here,/ you will be amazed that after a violent storm a rainbow can appear./ Be careful not to begin your count, see what friends the rainbow can make,/ remember, these are not your true friends their loyalty is fake./ Keep sight of the friends that remained when the rain poured down,/ now begin your count of real friends ones you know will always be around."-Robert Louis Vanelli
3267) "I think the Boston music scene is like two snakes trying to strangle each other to death: just when one tries to poke his head out of the hole, the other tightens his grip. But I'd rather be here than in New York or Nashville or L.A. Here there are 10,000 writers with axes to grind and you won't find that any old place."-Jim's Big Ego, "Local Boston Band" (slightly paraphrased)
3268) "But maybe that's just it: maybe this is not merely a concert at all. Listening to Dar, Lucy, and Richard sing on Saturday was an experience more closely akin, perhaps, to the distillation of one's passions into a deep and heavy wine. And of these sorrows that rise like smoke from the welter of each individual life, there is a collection, and a condensation, and finally a falling -- drops of rain within an over-laden cloud, each awaiting its moment to cry, cry, cry..."-Dan Nooter
3269) "I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday."-Kris Kristofferson, "Me and Bobby McGee"
3270) "There are certain chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
3271) "A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
3272) "I just have so many better things to do when I'm happy, and I don't know, writing is just something that I do when I absolutely have to, completely out of necessity."-Tara MacLean, about writing sad songs
3273) "Sorrow is the sister of love and the mother of music."-Ben Oakley(?), author
3274) "The only time we seek the opinion of others is when we are unsure of our own."- Leigh Denuex
3275) "Be ashamed to die until you have won one small battle for humanity."-Horace Mann
3276) "half the things we say these days/ get hurled back as a quote."-Mary Gauthier, "A Different Kind of Gone"
3277) "TV is the mirror of our lives."-Lawrence W. Lipman
3278) "I mean, you would love it, if you didn't not like it."-Jessica Schraub
3279) "Guy friends don't pay the bills."-Jen Tosti
3280) "let me touch you/ put my hands on you/ I'll kiss you/ and we'll see things through/ would you lay with me/ would you lay with me/ till the sun peaks through the blinds/ we can stay right here/ till our heads are clear/ we can lose all track of time/ you are silenced/ by your memories/ and if i lose you/ i lose a part of me/ 'cause I can save the world/ I can save the world/ but I just can't save myself/ so I write these lines/ metaphors and rhymes/ till I think of something else/ is there really nothing else/ I am here now/ you've got the best of me/ so have no fear now/ go ahead and take the rest of me/ 'cause there are two of us/ there are two of us/ it's the cycle of our souls/ yet we try and change/ and rearrange/ the way the story goes/ that's the way the story goes"-Shawn Mullins, "Cycle of Our Souls"
3281) "I'm unworthy, and no matter what I'm doing,/ I should certainly be doing something else./ And it's selfish to be thinking I'm unworthy,/ all this me, me, me, me, self, self, self, self, self./ If I'm talking on the phone I should be working on the lawn/ which looks disgraceful from the things I haven't done./ If I'm working on the lawn I should be concentrating on/ those magazines inside, since I have not read one./ I should learn how to meditate and sew and bake/ and dance and paint and sail and make gazpacho./ I should turn my attention to repairing/ all those forty year old socks there in that bureau./ I should let someone teach me to run Windows,/ and learn French that I can read and write and speak./ I should get life in prison for how I treated my parents/ from third grade until last week./ I should spend more time playing with my dog/ and much less money on this needless junk I buy./ I should send correspondence back to everyone/ who's written, phoned or faxed since junior high./ I should sit with a therapist until I understand/ the way I felt back in my mom./ I should quit smoking, drinking, eating, thinking/ sleeping, watching TV, writing stupid songs./ I should be less impatient when the line just takes forever/ 'cause the two cashiers are talking./ I should see what it's like to get up really early rain or shine/ and spend three hours walking./ I should know CPR and deep massage and Braille/ and sign language and how to change my oil./ I should go where the situation's desperate/ and build and paint and trudge and tote and toil./ I should chant in impossible positions/ till my legs appear to not have any bones./ I should rant at the cops and politicians/ and the corporations-in indignant tones./ I should save lots of money to leave Audubon,/ plus all the rocks and animals and plants./ I should brave possibilities for plotting plums of problems/ prob'ly blossomed, plausibly from/ blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah/ blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I'm unworthy."-Cheryl Wheeler, "Unworthy"
3282) "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."-Albert Einstein
3283) "The Internet sidesteps the TV sets, the billboards and even the radio stations. The Internet fosters the grapevine and the grapevine is really good for anything that is subculture."-Dar Williams
3284) "...the little that is done seems nothing when we look forward and see how much we have yet to do."-Goethe
3285) "To act is so easy, to think is so hard!"-Goethe
3286) "When you come right down to it, the only thing of value we possess is our time."-Lawrence W. Lipman
3287) "'I suppose history never lies, does it?' said Mr. Dick, with a gleam of hope. 'Oh, dear, no, sir!' I replied, most decisively. I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
3288) "Most people are normal, but they just don't seem that way."-Jessica Schraub
3289) "Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied...'Things aren't always what they seem'. The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel 'how could you have let this happen!? The first man had everything, yet you helped him,' she accused. 'The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let their cow die.' 'Things aren't always what they seem,' the older angel replied. 'When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave her the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem.'"
3290) "The window is nothing but a hole in the wall, yet because of it the room is filled with light."-Chuang Tzu
3291) "My philosophy is this: If you don't have a good sense of humor you're better off dead."-Roger Rabbit
3292) "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."-Gilbert Highet
3293) "They say there are lots of good fish in the sea - but who wants to date fish?"
3294) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."-Chinese proverb
3295) "It was difficult to believe that a night so long to me, could be short to anyone else."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
3296) "Beginnings are usually scary, and ends are always sad. It's the middle that counts. So, remember that in the beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up, and it will."-Hope Floats
3297) "I want to appreciate the times when moments are made into memories. I want to embrace them. Cherish them. And never forget they come so few and far between. I know that wherever life takes me, these moments will always follow. They remind me of what's truly important. It's not just life -- but living. It's the journey, the destination, and all points in between. And I must admit, I like what I see."
3298) "The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it."
3299) "Within me lies a superhero who is swift and strong and comes to the rescue of those who need her. She prefers, however, not to wear a cape."
3300) "When you walk to the edge of all the light you have/ and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,/ you must believe that one of two things will happen:/ There will be something solid for you to stand upon,/ or, you will be taught how to fly"-Patrick Overton, "Faith", The Leaning Tree