Its great to come home from school and see the family, but Im about to kill my little brother if he doesnt shut the hell up.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

~ Marquis de la Grange

"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

~ Raymond Lindquist

You gave me live.


Now show me how to live.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

~ Thomas Campbell

Crap, anybody seen my keys?

- Dano -

:lol: My kids are at one another already too! Oh, and I was the little brother. I'll shut up now. :D

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."

-William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. 2, line 32."

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Yeah, that was a bad one. I wake up at 8 because he has locked himself outside (havent figured that one out, it was a deadbolt) and is ringing the doorbell five times a second and banging on the door at the same time, while my parents are calling the house frantically because he didnt answer the phone and thought he was hurt or something. To top it off, he had a friend over, and they proceeded to run around the house screaming and yelling. I thought I was going to flip.

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."

-W. H. Auden

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

- Jimmy Cannon

My primordial nature has no liking for the life in the cities. To be free from the noise I built a little thatched cottage far away in the depth of the mountains. Wandering here and there I carry no thought. When spring comes I watch the birds; in summer I bathe in the running stream; in autumn I climb the highest peaks; during the winter I am warming up in the sun. Thus I enjoy the real flavor of the seasons.

- Shih t'ao (1641-1717)

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

~ Saint Augustine

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

~ Aristotle

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

-Johann von Goethe

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

~ Lynn Hall

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

~ Maya Angelou

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

~ Stewart L. Udall

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

—J.R.R. Tolkien

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

~ Victoria Holt

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you're feeling good, you tend to shine. Pick one of these days to look in the mirror and notice the good stuff about yourself.

Kristine Carlson
Writer

Get your mind off of it.


Whatever it is.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

~ Italian Proverb

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

~ William Jennings Bryan

I need a new vagina.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

- Walter Mosley

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

~ Richard Bach

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

-douglas adams

At fifty, everyone has the face they deserve.

- Oscar Wilde


Not everything that can be counted matters, and not everything that matters can be counted.

- Albert Einstein

If only we would realize we do not live for ourselves, but we live so that others may have joy. In this we find our true nature.

-M.L. Breton

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

~ Malcolm Forbes

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"

- Jonathan Winters

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

~ Seneca

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Hannah More (1745-1833)
Writer and educator

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

~ Confucius

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike
Writer and critic