3501) "Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."-Miriam Beard
3502) "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves"-Victor Hugo
3503) "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."-Katherine Mansfield
3504) "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."-Sophia Loren
3505) "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases."-C. G. Jung
3506) "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."-Jean-Paul Sartre
3507) "Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever."-Gail Godwin
3508) "The delights of self-discovery are always available."-Gail Sheehy
3509) "Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life."-Julia T. Alvarez
3510) "What a man can imagine he may one day achieve."-Nancy Hale
3511) "The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss."-Diane Ravitch
3512) "One of these days is none of these days."-H. G. Bohn
3513) "The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."
3514) "If you don't ask, the answer is always 'No.'"-Everett Lipman
3515) "They come here to visit the mourners./ They squat at the holocaust memorial/ They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall,/ And they laugh behind heavy curtains/ in their hotels./ They have pictures taken/ Together with our famous dead/ At Rachel's Tomb And at Herzl's Tomb/ And on the top of Ammunition Hill./ They weep over our sweet boys,/ And lust over our tough girls,/ And hang up their underwear/ To dry quickly/ In cool blue bathrooms./ Once I sat on the steps at the gate of David's Tower, I placed my two heavy baskets at my side. A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. 'You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head, there's an arch from the Roman period. Just right of his head.' But he's moving, he's moving! I said to myself, redemption will come only if their guide tells them: You see that arch over there from the Ro-man period? It's not important: but next to it, left and down a bit, there sits a man who's bought fruit and vegetables for his family."-Yehuda Amichai, "Tourists"
3516) "The bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."-Lynn Lavner
3517) "One must learn to fall, if one would fly."-Richard Bach
3518) "Two paths diverged in a wood, and I-/ I took the one less traveled by/ And that has made all the difference."-Robert Frost, "The Road Less Traveled"
3519) "Yesterday is gone."-Richard Webster
3520) "Worries are like rocking chairs, they give you something to do, but they don't get you anywhere!"
3521) "Architecture is frozen music."
3522) "Be who you are and say what you feel, cause those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."-Dr. Seuss
3523) "Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity."-Kathy Williams
3524) "My life has a superb cast, I just haven't figured out the plot."
3525) "I intend to live forever...so far, so good."-Steven Wright
3526) "To be able to have a new beginning, or start over, is to be granted the greatest gift in all the world."-Jarod Polburn
3527) "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."-Betty Smith
3528) "…Falcon Ridge is the one place and time where the rest of the world ceases to exist for just a little while, all the troubles of life float away, all the stress seeps out of the body, and love of your fellow human beings becomes a statement, not a question."-Jeff Gilson
3529) "The best and most beautiful discovery that true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
3530) "When you were born, you were crying, and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who's smiling and everyone around you is crying."
3531) "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."-Eleanor Roosevelt
3532) "A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again."-Jann Arden
3533) "I guess that's the way it is. Children leave and parents stay behind. But no matter what, he'll always be your father, and he'll always leave the light on for you."-Kevin on "The Wonder Years"
3534) "…I thought how easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it."-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
3535) "THINGS HAD CHANGED, what an arsehole comment, I had changed things. Things don't change, they're not like the seasons moving on a diurnal round. People change things. There are victims of change, but not victims of things."-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
3536) "Molecular docking is a serious challenge for bio-chemists. There are many ways to fit molecules together but only a few juxtapositions that bring them close enough to bond. On a molecular level success may mean discovering what synthetic structure, what chemical, will form a union with, say, the protein shape on a tumour cell. If you make this high-risk jigsaw work you may have found a cure for carcinoma. But molecules and the human beings they are a part of exist in a universe of possibility. We touch one another, bond and break, drift away on force-fields we don't understand."-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
3537) "Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?" -Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
3538) "'You'll get over it...' It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? I've thought a lot about death recently, the finality of it, the argument ending in mid-air. One of us hadn't finished, why did the other one go? And why without warning? Even death after long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. The day before the Wednesday last, this time a year ago, you were here and now you're not. Why not? Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a child. If yesterday why not today? And where are you? Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day? I raise my head to the door and think I will see you in the frame. I know it is your voice in the corridor but when I run outside the corridor is empty. There is nothing I can do that will make any difference. The last word is yours. The fluttering in the stomach goes away and the dull waking pain. Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone had said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shaft of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it."-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
3539) "I'm the only person alone in this café and I used to love being alone. That was when I had the luxury of knowing that soon someone would push open the heavy door and look for me."-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
3540) "Britney Spears is like my computer: cheap, slow and plastic."-Alyssa
3541) "Every once in a while someone comes along/ Asking you to be more than maybe you can be./ But this is also the person who inspires you to be more./ Maybe they won't ever know the impact they had on you,/ But the next one may."
3542) "...But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
3543) "It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told."-Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
3544) "Out of clutter, find simplicity/ From discord, make harmony/ In the midst of difficulty, lies opportunity."-Albert Einstein
3545) "Live gently. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds. Shine."-Zen
3546) "I teach you only one mantra: Who am I? Go deep into it: Who am I?--not only repeating it but being in the feel of it. Let it become an existential question, not just words, let your whole being become the question mark. Who am I? Let it penetrate you like an arrow. Once you have known yourself, all is known."-Ramana Maharshi
3547) "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
3548) "The impediment to true happiness is to think that love has boundaries."
3549) "Here I am now, a man watching the debris of his past washed in tears. The sweet tears of another chance, the chance to live life the way summer breaks a thousand clouds."-Armand Robles
3550) "Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. Boys and girls are drilled in being bored, frightened, envious, emotionally needy, generally incompetent. A successful mass production economy requires such a clientele...a managed mass of leveled, spiritless, anxious, family-less, friendless, godless, and obedient people who believe the difference between Coke and Pepsi is worth arguing about."-John Taylor Gatto, Universal Education
3551) "Change is the only consistency life has to offer us."-Amy McAllister
3552) "Be the one who makes the decisions, not the one that does what is decided for him."
3553) "Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit."
3554) "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."-Anne Bradstreet
3555) "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."-Mother Teresa
3556) Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the Sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."-Zora Neale Hurston
3557) "You can give with out loving, but you can't love with out giving."-Amy Carmichael
3558) "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."-John Holt
3559) "Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal many people's souls."-Melody Beattie
3560) "You can't choose your thoughts, you choose your actions."-Iain Melotte
3561) "My anger has left me, my sadness returned, and once more the tears flow. Whom can I curse, whom can I judge when we are all alike unfortunate? Suffering's universal, hands are outstretched to each other, and when they touch... the great solution will come. My heart is aglow, and I stretch out my hand and cry, 'Come let us join hands! I love you, I love you!'"-Andeyev, Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days
3562) "One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful..."-Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
3563) "Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone."
3564) "Living in New York is still like having a big, hairy bitch of a monkey stapled to your back, gnawing on your ears and pouring grain alcohol in the wounds. It will ever be thus. Living in New York is still the most consistently exhilarating, educating, and wonderful thing in the world."-Brett Martin
3565) "It's hard to know how to speak up when you don't know if you have silent allies in the crowd, particularly since you always pay a price for doing the speaking. You get marked, pigeon-holed, expected to continue as a spokesperson for that issue or identity, separated from the group. That's a high price to pay when what you want is to fit in…"-Audrey Beth Stein
3566) "Only the rocks live forever. It matters not how long you live, but how you live."-Native American saying
3567) Most of the time/ I'm clear focused all around,/ Most of the time/ I can keep both feet on the ground,/ I can follow the path, I can read the signs,/ Stay right with it when the road unwinds,/ I can handle whatever I stumble upon./ I don't even notice she's gone,/ Most of the time./ Most of the time/ It's well understood,/ Most of the time/ I wouldn't change it if I could,/ I can't make it all match up, I can hold my own,/ I can deal with the situation right down to the bone,/ I can survive, I can endure/ And I don't even think about her/ Most of the time./ Most of the time/ My head is on straight,/ Most of the time/ I'm strong enough not to hate./ I don't build up illusion 'til it makes me sick,/ I ain't afraid of confusion no matter how thick./ I can smile in the face of mankind./ Don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine/ Most of the time./ Most of the time/ She ain't even in my mind,/ I wouldn't know her if I saw her,/ She's that far behind./ Most of the time/ I can't even be sure/ If she was ever with me/ Or if I was with her./ Most of the time/ I'm halfway content,/ Most of the time/ I know exactly where it went,/ I don't cheat on myself, I don't run and hide,/ Hide from the feelings that are buried inside./ I don't compromised and I don't pretend,/ I don't even care if I ever see her again/ Most of the time."-Bob Dylan, "Most of the Time"
3568) "If you can no longer feel the sun's rays on your face, or imagine that a thing such as a smile ever existed, I will be there for you. I will pull you up so that you may feel the sun's rays on your face once again."-Kim Gomez
3569) "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed."-Jung
3570) "I would like to watch you sleeping,/ which may not happen./ I would like to watch you,/ sleeping. I would like to sleep/ with you, to enter/ your sleep as its smooth dark wave/ slides over my head/ and walk with you through that lucent/ wavering forest of bluegreen leaves/ with its watery sun & three moons/ towards the cave where you must descend,/ towards your worst fear/ I would like to give you the silver/ branch, the small white flower, the one/ word that will protect you/ from the grief at the center/ of your dream, from the grief/ at the center. I would like to follow/ you up the long stairway/ again & become/ the boat that would row you back/ carefully, a flame/ in two cupped hands/ to where your body lies/ beside me, and you enter/ it as easily as breathing in/ I would like to be the air/ that inhabits you for a moment/ only. I would like to be that unnoticed/ & that necessary."-Margaret Atwood, "Variations on the Word Sleep"
3571) "I've learned that it's not necessarily about winning an argument, but rather being heard and understood."-Chadwick on "Road Rules"
3572) "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."-Marcus Aurelius
3573) "Problem stated at its most succinct - is life too short to be taking shit or is life too short to mind it?"-Violet Weingarten, "Intimations of Mortality"
3574) "I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence."-Yehudi Menuhin
3575) "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."-Albert Einstein
3576) "If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'"-Chi McBride
3577) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."-Bertrand Russell
3578) "If there is something that you are passionately in love with and wish you could do, the odds are that you can, but you are simply afraid of trying it."-Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
3579) "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."-Mohandas K. Gandhi
3580) "No man will be remembered for anything greater than himself - unless he puts forth his heart before his name."
3581) "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible...what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!"-Soren Kierkagaard
3582) "I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right."-Chick Corea
3583) "Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."-Bern Williams
3584) "Doing things, or not doing them, because you're afraid...that strikes me as a mistake."-Cynthia Voigt, The Runner
3585) "Had you been there tonight you might know how it feels,/ To be struck to the bone in a moment of breathless delight./ Had you been there tonight you might also have know,/ how the world may be changed in just one burst of light./ And what was right seems wrong,/ And what was wrong seems right."-Herbert Kremtzer, "Red and Black"
3586) "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."-Chinese proverb
3587) "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it, generation after generation."-Pearl S. Buck
3588) "There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers."-Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
3589) "Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Every day you live is a special occasion."
3590) "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
3591) "Sometimes silence is the most important thing we can hear."-Dr. David Boan
3592) "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."-Henry David Thoreau, Walden
3593) "I have loved, and got, and told,/ But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,/ I should not find that hidden mystery."-John Donne, "Love's Alchemy"
3594) "Later, as you get to be my age, you will see your friends begin to die, to lose their memories, to see their skins turn wrinkled and sick. You will see the effects of dark secrets making themselves known-- via their minds, and bodies and via the stories your friends will begin telling you at 3:30 in the morning as you put iodine on their bruises, arrange for tetanus shots, dial 911, and listen to them cry. The only payback for all of this--for the conversion of their once-young hearts into tar--will be that you will love your friends more, even though they have made you see the world as an emptier and scarier place--and they will love you more too."-Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
3595) "I try to imagine the sensation of being dead--not breathing, turning off my mind--nonexisting. But this imagining never works. Life always wins. I emerge from these bouts triumphant and overflowing with energy, gulping the wind, reaching for the birds, feeling so vital I can hardly breathe."-Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
3596) "Every man's memory is his private literature."-Aldous Huxley
3597) "Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."-Thornton Wilder
3598) "I always thought I was weird and had skewed ideas about the world. I now know: I do, and so does everyone else. Reality is what we want it to be..."-Han de Boer
3599) "If you could see the you that I see, you'd see yourself differently…I assure you."-Rollins Band
3600) "You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."-Abraham Lincoln