401) "If you intend to live again, then open your eyes and don't pretend you're feeling there's nothing worth believing."
402) "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life experience."
403) "The moment may be temporary, but the memory lasts forever."
404) "It's okay to talk to yourself, just don't interrupt."
405) "There is a place where you will learn to face your fears, retrace the years, and ride the whims of your mind."
406) "Take a ride to the land of fantasy where dreams become reality."
407) "There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."
408) "A path I will never choose is that of surrender or submission."
409) "Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own."
410) "Well it's high time you realize that I must live my life as it surrounds me."
411) "Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye."
412) "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
413) "Life is short--make your mark."
414) "The most difficult thing is to put yourself in somebody else's shoes."
415) "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."-Lao-Tse
416) "In the inner relationship of all existence there is no good-bye."
417) "Fire does not wait for the sun to be hot, nor the wind for the moon to be cool."-Matt Rogers
418) "We're free to fly the crimson sky because the sun won't melt our wings tonight."-U2, "Even Better Than the Real Thing"
419) "Dream your tomorrows; live your todays."
--In memory of Janet Schattin
420) "At some point in time we all have to break but in the end we're much stronger in the broken parts."
421) "There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships."
422) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
423) "If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another."-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
424) "Your misery is everyone else's entertainment."-Adam Duritz
425) "When everybody loves me, I'll be just about as fucked up as I can be."-Adam Duritz
426) "And it's so scary, confusing--what we might be losing..."-Phenom theme song
427) "I don't care what they think/ I don't care what they say/ What do they know about this/ love anyway."-Melissa Etheridge, "Come to My Window"
428) "The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again."-Alan Paton, South African author
429) "A friend is somone who comes in when the world has gone out."
430) "I've never been lost. I've just been a little behind when time ran out."-No Fear t-shirt
431) "I've chosen the long, dark path less travelled and that long, dark path is my only friend."
432) "To all my friends present, past, and beyond, especially to those who weren't with us too long: Life's the most precious thing you can lose."-Pennywise
433) "Time it was, and what a time it was; it was/ A time of innocence/ A time of confidences/ Long ago, it must be/ I have a photograph/ Preserve your memories/ They're all that's left you."-Paul Simon, "Old Friends"
434) "Age is a kind of distance...and age differences are irreconcilable, like the sides of a magnet that refuse to touch."-Rebecca Moore
435) "Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another."-Gabrielle Carteris
436) "There is no enemy without if there is no ememy within."-Dr. Judy vKuriansky
437) "Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away."-Robert James Waller
438) "The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them."-Robert James Waller
439) "When you call someone's name, and they don't hear, you feel so lonely."-Angela on My So-Called Life
440) "Life's/...a tale/ told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing."-William Shakespeare
441) "You can't go voicing something if it's just not right."-Billie Joe
442) "Contradictory phrases: 'The squeaky wheel gets the oil' and 'She who cackles loudest is the first to lose her head.'"
443) "Contradictory phrases: 'The unexamined life is not worth living' and 'Ignorance is bliss.'"
444) "if you know who you are./ if you'll try anything once./ if you won't take no for an answer./ if you live your own life./ if you choose love over stability./ if you like to share./ if you don't try to be something you're not./ if you think conformity is boring./ if you're a man or a woman..."-ck one
445) "There's daggers in men's smiles."-William Shakepeare
446) "When the truth is found to be lies and all the joy within you dies, don't you want somebody to love? Don't you need somebody to love? Wouldn't you love somebody to love? You better find somebody to love."-Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love"
447) "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."-Albert Einstein
448) "There's none so blind as those who will not see."-Moody Blues, "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"
449) "Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun"-Gregor Von Rezzori
450) "and half an hour later we packed up our things/ we said we'd send letters and all those little things/ and they knew we were lying but they smiled just the same/ it seemed they'd already forgotten we'd came/ now we're back at the homestead/ where the air makes you choke/ and people don't know you/ and trust is a joke/ we don't even have pictures/ just memories to hold/ that grow sweeter each season/ as we slowly grow old."-Glen Phillips, "Walk on the Ocean"
451) "nothing's so loud/ as hearing when we lie/ the truth is not kind/ and you've said neither am i/ but the air outside so soft is saying everything/...notihng's so cold/ as closing the door when all we need/ is to free the soul/ but we wouldn't be that brave i know/ and the air outside so soft, confessing everything..."-Glen Phillips, "All I Want"
452) "We don't need torture chambers--we got them right between our ears."-Mr. Odenwald
453) "...one may smile, and smile, and be a villain."-William Shakespeare
454) "People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
455) "Boring things prolong our lives."-TOK conversation
456) "I will tell you what I have learned and remembered, but it must not be mistaken for the truth."-a dead poet's daughter
457) "I know one thing we did right/ Was the day we started to fight./ Keep your eyes on the prize,/ Hold on, hold on."-a traditional civil rights song
457 again) "The test of character is the amount of strain it can bear."
458)"...it's awful quiet here since love fell asleep...what makes me think i could start clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated so i just sit up in the house and resist and not be seen until i cease to exist a kind of conscientious objection a kind of dodging the draft...the next time i fall i'm gonna have to recall it isn't love it's only something new..."-Emily Saliers, "Least Complicated"
459) "what it takes to cross the great divide seems more than all the courage i can muster up inside but we get to have some answers when we reach the other side the prize is always worth the rocky ride."-Emily Saliers, "The Wood Song"
460) "intolerance promotes isolation. tolerance lets you grow. intolerance makes judgements. tolerance preserves independence. intolerance locks people out. tolerance finds a way to keep doors open. intolerance locks you up. tolerance strengthens bonds. intolerance demands conformity. tolerance respects differences. intolerance seals doors. tolerance lets people in."-poster in Spanish room
461) "Paranoia is knowing all the facts."-Woody Allen
462) "You can't see the forest through the trees."
463) "It is meant to be,/ For the world will retain interest/ In things so different."-Rob Maynard
464) "Will you please/ Take me in./ Take me in and care for me./ Care for my yearning and kiss me softly./ Fill me with love that/ does not change./ That does not change no matter what./ No matter what it is/ I will always love you."-Rob Maynard
465) "Eat, drink, and be merry--for tomorrow we will die."
466) "When they said pick one thing and stick with it, they didn't mean you."-sign in Spanish room
467) "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."-George Orwell, 1984
468) "How so many with so much could achieve so little for so long against so few?"-American ambassador about the Vietnam War
469) "The longest war is over/ Or so they say/ Again/ But I can still hear the gunfire/ Every night/ From/ My bed./ The longest nightmare/ Never seems to/ Ever/ Quite come/ To/ An end."-Jan Barry
470) "I'm just kind of peeved,/ It's just not fair,/ When the world just stops,/ And society just stares."-Rob Maynard
471) "You made your bed; now you lie in it."
472) "Zen koan of the day--If juniors were allowed out to lunch, would there be more or less juniors (mentally) out to lunch?"-TOK chalkboard
473) "...there are places we all come from--deep-rooty-common places--that make us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again--and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory."-Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
474) "It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible."-Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
475) "Ty Cobb-.367. He got a hit once out of every three times at bat. He didn't even bat .500--so what can you expect already?"-a rabbi to Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
476) "Murphy's Law does not always hold, says Grandfather Sam. Every once in a while the fundamental laws of the universe seem to be momentarily suspended, and not only does everything go right, nothing seems to be able to keep it from going right. It's not always something as dramatic as the long bomb or the slam-dunk that wins ball games. Ever drop a glass in the sink and have it bounce nine times and not even chip? Ever come out after work to find your lights have been on all day and your battery's dead but you're parked on a hill and you let your old hoopy roll and it fires the first time you pop the clutch and off you roar with a high heart? Ever pull out that drawer in your desk that has a ten-year accumulation of junk in it--pull it too far and too fast--and just as it's about to vomit its contents all over the room you get a knee under it and stagger back hopping on one foot doing a balancing act like the Great Zucchini and you don't lose it? A near-miss at an intersection; the glass of knocked-over milk that waltzes across the table but doesn't spill; the deposit that beat your rubber check to the bank because there was a holiday you forgot about; the lump in your breast that turned out to be benign; the heart attack that turned out to be gas; picking the right lane for once in a traffic jam; opening the door of your car with a coat hanger through the wing window on the first try. And on and on and on and on."-Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
477) "Everything you can imagine is real."-Pablo Picasso
478) "We can do no great things; only small things with great love."-Mother Teresa
479) "Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!"-Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
480) "Your children don't know the meaning of the word 'racism.' Let's keep it that way."-TV commercial
481) "When the Lord closes the door, somewhere, He opens a window."-a nun in The Sound of Music
482) "Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it."-Dorianne Laux
483) "A champion is someone who gets up even when they can't."-No Fear t-shirt
484) "Pity would be no more,/ If we did not make somebody Poor;/ And Mercy no more could be./ If all were as happy as we..."-William Blake, "A Poison Tree"
485) "It matters not who you love but that you love."
486) "Just because I say [the quiz] is on Wednesday doesn't mean it is."-Srta. Sieirra
487) "Guess what?" "The fifth dentist caved, and now they're all recommending Trident?"-Rachel and Chandler on Friends
488) "And because I am happy and dance and sing,/ They think they have done me no injury."-William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper"
489) "God and His Priest and King,/...make up a heaven of our misery."-William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper"
490) "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop."
491) "Nothing is certain in life but change."
492) "If I wanted to I could be as patient as death/ Fix this hole in my heart leaking into my flesh/ If I wanted to I could turn sparks into ice/...I wouldn't have to be in love with you/ If I only wanted to..."-Melissa Etheridge, "If I Only Wanted To"
493) "...some people actually cheat on the people that they're cheating with, which is like holding up a bank and then turning to the robber next to you and going, 'All right, give me everything you got, too.'"-Jerry Seinfeld
494) "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
495) "Singing is like kissing; it's much better if you open your mouth."-Ms. Sneyers
496) "It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the world."-Stuart Smalley (Al Franken)
497) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives get developed."-Stuart Smalley (Al Franken)
498) "You know how when you get so close to something that big, you can't see anything at all."-Glen Phillips, "Butterflies"
499) "If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
500) "Consoling words are more for strangers, for hospitals, not kin. Little emotional Band-Aids like that aren't what he needs or what's sought."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance