3301) "Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love."-Charlie Brown
3302) "Have you ever wondered what other people see? Does it really matter? Beauty is how you see it."
3303) "I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get."-Thomas Jefferson
3304) "It is better to kill on your knees than die on your feet."-Nils Ross
3305) "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."-Robert Louis Stevenson
3306) "i watch out my window as the planes take off into space/ oh, that i could fly away and start fresh/ but i must realize that fresh starts also come in the pretty wrapped gift called 'tomorrow.'"-Katie Walloch
3307) "The road leading you to a goal does not separate you from it; it is an essential part of it."-Old Romany saying
3308) "Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours."-John Leguizamo, Freak
3309) "No one lives forever/ Dead men rise up never? and even the longest river/ winds somewhere safe to the sea."-from British Folklore, gathered by Stephan Gallagher
3310) "There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking responsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact."-Frederick S. Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim
3311) Maybe it's the movies, maybe it's the books/ Maybe it's the bullets, maybe it's the real crooks/ Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the parents/ Maybe it's the colors everybody's wearin/ Maybe it's the President, maybe it's the last one/ Maybe it's the one before that, what he done/ Maybe it's the high schools, maybe it's the teachers/ Maybe it's the tattooed children in the bleachers/ Maybe it's the Bible, maybe it's the lack/ Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the crack/ Maybe it's the hairdos, maybe it's the TV/ Maybe it's the cigarettes, maybe it's the family/ Maybe it's the fast food, maybe it's the news/Maybe it's divorce, maybe it's abuse/ Maybe it's the lawyers, maybe it's the prisons/ Maybe it's the Senators, maybe it's the system/ Maybe it's the fathers, maybe it's the sons/ Maybe it's the sisters, maybe it's the moms/ Maybe it's the radio, maybe it's road rage/ Maybe El Nino, or UV rays/ Maybe it's the army, maybe it's the liquor/ Maybe it's the papers, maybe the militia/ Maybe it's the athletes, maybe it's the ads/ Maybe it's the sports fans, maybe it's a fad/ Maybe it's the magazines, maybe it's the internet/ Maybe it's the lottery, maybe it's the immigrants/ Maybe it's taxes, big business/ Maybe it's the KKK and the skinheads/ Maybe it's the communists, maybe it's the Catholics/ Maybe it's the hippies, maybe it's the addicts/ Maybe it's the art, maybe it's the sex/ Maybe it's the homeless, maybe it's the banks/ Maybe it's the clearcut, maybe it's the ozone/ Maybe it's the chemicals, maybe it's the car phones/ Maybe it's the fertilizer, maybe it's the nose rings/ Maybe it's the end, but I know one thing./ If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns."-Cheryl Wheeler, "If It Were Up to Me"
3312) "To love is to open one's soul, leaving it open to hurt and pain, but to joy and bliss as well."-Sara Fairbrother
3313) "Mediocrity is a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of creation."-Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
3314) "The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
3315) "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
3316) "I choose to live in a city where riding my bike is a possibility--where seeing and listening and touching helps build a sense of community--and so I do it. I don't want to rely on more distant images to tell me about a place minutes from my home."-William Ayers, A Kind and Just Parent
3317) "When you think about it, we 'strange' people are really the majority, making the 'strange' people the norm. And all you 'normal' people look pretty strange to me."
3318) "You know, the problem with sex in the movies is that you usually spill your popcorn."
3319) "She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where we live. I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the world begins to close in on me. She was building a sandcastle or something and looked up, her eyes as blue as the sea. 'Hello,' she said. I answered with a nod, not really in the mood to bother with a small child. 'I'm building,' she said. 'I see that. What is it?' I asked, not caring. 'Oh, I don't know, I just like the feel of sand.' That sounds good, I thought, and slipped off my shoes. A sandpiper glided by. 'That's a joy,' the child said. 'It's a what?' 'It's a joy. My mama says sandpipers come to bring us joy.' The bird went gliding down the beach. 'Good-bye joy,' I muttered to myself, 'hello pain,' and turned to walk on. I was depressed; my life seemed completely out of balance. 'What's your name?' She wouldn't give up. 'Robert,' I answered. 'I'm Robert Peterson.' 'Mine's Wendy. I'm six.' 'Hi, Wendy.' She giggled. 'You're funny,' she said. In spite of my gloom I laughed too and walked on. Her musical giggle followed me. 'Come again, Mr. P,' she called. 'We'll have another happy day.' The days and weeks that followed belong to others: a group of unruly Boy Scouts, PTA meetings, an ailing mother. The sun was shining one morning as I took my hands out of the dishwater. 'I need a sandpiper,' I said to myself, gathering up my coat. The ever-changing balm of the seashore awaited me. The breeze was chilly, but I strode along, trying to recapture the serenity I needed. I had forgotten the child and was startled when she appeared. 'Hello, Mr. P,' she said. 'Do you want to play?' 'What do you have in mind?' I asked, with a twinge of annoyance. 'I don't know, you say.' 'How about charades?' I asked sarcastically. The tinkling laughter burst forth again. 'I don't know what that is.' 'Then let's just walk.' Looking at her I noticed the delicate fairness of her face. 'Where do you live?' I asked. 'Over there.' She pointed toward a row of summer cottages. Strange, I thought, in winter. 'Where do you go to school?' 'I don't go to school. Mommy says we're on vacation.' She chattered little girl talk as we strolled up the beach, but my mind was on other things. When I left for home, Wendy said it had been a happy day. Feeling surprisingly better, I smiled at her and agreed. Three weeks later, I rushed to my beach in a state of near panic. I was in no mood to even greet Wendy. I thought I saw her mother on the porch and felt like demanding she keep her child at home. 'Look, if you don't mind,' I said crossly when Wendy caught up with me, 'I'd rather be alone today.' She seemed unusually pale and out of breath. 'Why?' she asked. I turned to her and shouted, 'Because my mother died!' and thought, my God, why was I saying this to a little child? 'Oh,' she said quietly, 'then this is a bad day.' 'Yes,' I said, 'and yesterday and the day before and-oh, go away!' 'Did it hurt?' she inquired. 'Did what hurt?' I was exasperated with her, with myself. 'When she died?' 'Of course it hurt!!!!' I snapped, misunderstanding, wrapped up in myself. I strode off. A month or so after that, when I next went to the beach, she wasn't there. Feeling guilty, ashamed and admitting to myself I missed her, I went up to the cottage after my walk and knocked at the door. A drawn looking young woman with honey-colored hair opened the door. 'Hello,' I said. 'I'm Robert Peterson. I missed your little girl today and wondered where she was.' 'Oh yes, Mr. Peterson, please come in. Wendy spoke of you so much. I'm afraid I allowed her to bother you. If she was a nuisance, please, accept my apologies.' 'Not at all-she's a delightful child,' I said, suddenly realizing that I meant it. 'Where is she?' 'Wendy died last week, Mr. Peterson. She had leukemia. Maybe she didn't tell you.' Struck dumb, I groped for a chair. My breath caught. 'She loved this beach; so when she asked to come, we couldn't say no. She seemed so much better here and had a lot of what she called happy days. But the last few weeks, she declined rapidly,' her voice faltered. 'She left something for you if only I can find it. Could you wait a moment while I look?' I nodded stupidly, my mind racing for something, anything, to say to this lovely young woman. She handed me a smeared envelope, with 'Mr. P' printed in bold, childish letters. Inside was a drawing with bright crayon hues--a yellow beach, a blue sea, and a brown bird. Underneath was carefully printed: 'A SANDPIPER TO BRING YOU JOY.' Tears welled up in my eyes, and a heart that had almost forgotten to love opened wide. I took Wendy's mother in my arms. 'I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,' I muttered over and over, and we wept together. The precious little picture is framed now and hangs in my study. Six words, one for each year of her life that speak to me of harmony, courage, undemanding love. A gift from a child with sea-blue eyes and hair the color of sand-who taught me the gift of love."-Robert Peterson
3320) "The way you think about things shapes the way your reality is."-Lisa Mason, Summer of Love
3321) "No man ever rose to any degree of perfection but through obstinacy and an inveterate resolution against the stream of mankind."-Dr. Crucifer
3322) "We've assumed that there is something which we can call our identity which, in a rapidly shifting world, has the advantage of staying still...[As if it's] a kind of fixed point of thought and being, a ground of action, a still point in a turning world...In fact, identity is something that happens over time, that is never absolutely stable, that is subject to the play of history and the play of difference."-Stuart Hall
3323) "Are there any parents who can make their children completely happy?"-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3324) "You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face."-Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
3325) "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."-Booker T. Washington
3326) "All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3327) "The future is no place/ To place your better days."-Dave Matthews "Cry Freedom"
3328) "And in your eyes I see what's on my mind."-Dave Matthews, "Say Goodbye"
3329) "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."-Christopher Dawson
3330) "When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."-Clifton Fadiman
3331) "And so you see I have come to doubt/ All that I once held as true/ I stand alone without beliefs/ The only truth I know is you/ And as I watch the drops of rain/ Weave their weary paths and die/ I know that I am like the rain/ There before the grace of you go I"-Paul Simon, "Kathy's Song"
3332) "Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity...The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer--Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there."-Sam Walter Foss
3333) "Pain is weakness leaving the body."
3334) "If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."-Claudia Ghandi
3335) "We are the music makers/ We are the dreamers of dreams.../ We are the movers and shakers/ of the world, forever, it seems."-Arthur O'Shaughnessy
3336) "I'm nobody! Who are you?/ Are you nobody, too?/ Then there's a pair of us-don't tell./ They'd banish us, you know./ How dreary to be somebody!/ How public, like a frog/ To tell your name the livelong day/ To an admiring bog!"-Emily Dickinson
3337) "Well I'll be damn! We all pulled through/ To think of all the crazy things we wanted to do/ You would be a hero and I'd be a queen/ But think of all the living we'd have passed up, passed by/ We never would have seen it/ I'll be damn! We all pulled through/ To think of all the crazy things we wanted to do/ It may sound silly but I tell you it's real/ The older I get, a whole lot better I feel."-Holly Near, "Feeling Better"
3338) "I watch you flying/ I hear you sing/ You bring the music into my heart/ You are a healer/ Your colors ever changing/ And the melody you play becomes a part of you."-Holly Near, "Dancing Bird"
3339) "What's the point of me being here when being me is what I fear? Everyday it's all the same, trapped again in my own pain..."-Scott Moffatt
3340) "Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much/ Cause if what you have is all you can get/ Just keep on trying/ It just ain't happened yet"-Bryan Adams
3341) "I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything."-Edie Brickell
3342) "Come, come my conservative friend. Wipe the dew off your spectacles and see that the world is moving."-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3343) "That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously."-Sylvia Plath
3344) "But nothing is said of the closeness between two people: how they grew in the shade of each other's presence. No one speaks of that exchange of gift and character -- the way a person took on and recognized in himself the smile of a lover."-Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
3345) "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."-Mahatma Gandhi
3346) "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."-Ben Franklin
3347) "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"-George Bernard Shaw
3348) "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."-Jules de Gautier
3349) "Fear less, hope more;/ Whine less, breathe more;/ Talk less, say more;/ Hate less, love more;/ And all good things are yours."-Swedish Proverb
3350) "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."-Aldous Huxley
3351) "Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."-Sue Murphy
3352) "My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."-Joe Weinstein
3353) "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."-Ann Landers
3354) "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."-Mark Twain
3355) "Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."-Ivern Ball
3356) "Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it."-Osho, Indian mystic
3357) "I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf."-Tom Robbins
3358) "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."-Margaret Mead
3359) "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Issac Asimov, Foundation
3360) "One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech."-Dennis Miller
3361) "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be--or to be indistinguishable from--self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."-Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
3362) "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."-Mark Twain
3363) "For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."-Jean Paul Richter
3364) "It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them."-William Osler, Canadian-born British physician
3365) "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."-George Bernard Shaw
3366) "Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. 'Yes' is the answer."-Swami X
3367) "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"
3368) "'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,/ 'And your hair has become very white;/ And yet you incessantly stand on your head-/ Do you think, at your age, it is right?'/ 'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,/ 'I feared it might injure the brain;/ But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,/ Why, I do it again and again."-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3369) "If you wake up and don't want to smile, if it takes just a little while, open your eyes and look at the day, you'll see things in a different way."-Christine McVie, "Don't Stop"
3370) "Fall Seven times, stand up eight"-Chinese proverb
3371) "Don't be afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."-Chinese proverb
3372) "Those who wish to sing, always find a song."
3373) "It isn't painful tears anymore...not like it was. You don't stop the cryingbut after a while it doesn't hurt as much."-Joy
3374) "...An enchanting beauty, she offers her hand, whispers your name and those that go with her are never the same..."
3375) "Desperate for something to touch...A moment of kindness, like that in a dream...Your innocent eyes have no idea, of the path your destiny will follow..."
3376) "If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic."
3377) "i've faced the fathoms in your deep, withstood the suitors quiet siege, pulled down from heaven just to please you, appease you, the wind blows, and i know, i can't go on digging roses from your grave, to linger on, beyond the beyond, where the willows weep, and the whirlpools sleep, you'll find methe course tide reflects the sky and the nightmare rides on."-Billy Corgan
3378) "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."-George Bernard Shaw
3379) "Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to keep it intact, you must give your heart to no one...avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable...The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love...is hell."-C. S. Lewis
3380) "Even where love has run thin/ the child's soul musters strength.../ --the rush of purpose to make a life/ worth living past abandonment/ building the layers up again/ over the torn hole"-Adrienne Rich
3381) "Stop looking for Prince Charming, Cindrella's already got him."
3382) "heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
3383) "look away, look away from the past think ahead think ahead so you'll last another day and the days are so long and you'll get by but gettin' by is just another way to say half dead and you think you'd rather live your life instead of just gettin' by. don't you know don't you know it's bound to keep you up all night wonderin' where and how it all went wrong that night it all went wrong. so keep in mind keep in mind you're not to blame. bitter tears, bitter tears can fall like rain on your fields and those fields need that rain so look away and think ahead and live your life and cry those tears cry bitter tears..."-Shawn Mullins, "Bitter Tears"
3384) "be good to you take care of you shake loose of those self-help blues you gotta lot of livin' to do can't be givin' up on you sometimes the stars and the moon gonna play a trick on you and i will try to believe what you tell me and i will try to be true to myself cause i'm as free as i ever will be so don't be tryin' so hard don't be feelin' discarded just feel that love surround cause there's a whole lot there a whole lot waitin' to be shared there's still enough to go around and i will try to believe what you tell me and i will try to be true to myself cause i'm as free as i ever will be but where do i begin is there God within sometimes i'm not so sure so won't you teach to me but keep it simple please would you help a friend who's feeling low would you help a friend who's feeling low..."-Shawn Mullins, "Song to the Self"
3385) "To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To be loved by the one that you love is everything."
3386) "Don't ever pass an opportunity to capture a memory."
3387) "...as soon as you're born you start dying so you might as well have a good time..."-Cake
3388) "I do not fear death yet I fear dying."
3389) "Slow down before you get ahead of yourself."
3390) "If love was meant to be the goal of my life, does that mean you are my target?"-David Tolley
3391) "It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head."-Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
3392) "To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?"-Albert Einstein
3393) "Any time in life spent unhappy is wasted time."-Ben Fleming
3394) "There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand."-Dracula
3395) "I think that I read books the way that Humbert and Lolita have sex."-Dr. Erin O'Connor
3396) "People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read."-Virginia Woolf (paraphrased)
3397) "nothin' changes cause it's all the same/ the world you get's the one you give away/ it all just happens again way down the line"-The Offspring
3398) "They say I'm lazy, but it takes all my time."-Joe Walsh
3399) "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."-John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
3400) "It's a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations."-Winston Churchill