"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

~ Aldous Huxley

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

-Rabindranath Tagore

The terrible thing about searching for the truth is that sometimes you find it.

We can never find out who we really are, until we are put to test.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

~ Confucius

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

-Richard Buckminster Fuller

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi

A life unexamined is not worth living.


Aristotle (Plato)

The truth that makes men free is, for the most part, the truth which men prefer not to hear.

~ Herbert Agar

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

-Nelson Henderson

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

~ JFK

Truth is the daughter of time.

~ Aulus Gellius

Some times you just need to change.


Some times you just have to fail.

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.

-Heraclitus

"The whloe world is about three drinks behind"

~Humphrey Bogart

Patience is the only virtue that doesn't come naturally to people.

-ARTelevision

Love is not consolation, it is light.

~ Simone Weil

We live in a world that loves to suffer.

Do your best to not get involved.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

~ Mark Twain

...Its a big mistake to drive Black cattle in the dark...

-some cowboy

But far more numerous was the herd of such,
who think too little and who talk too much.

~ John Dryden

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

-Will Rogers

They know what is what but they don't know what is what.

They just strut.

What the fuck?

Do fish ever get tired of eatin' seafood?

Men. Can't live with them....eh. someone get me a beer.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

~ William Wordsworth

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."

-the Buddha

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

~ Foster C. McClellan

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need, that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

~ C. Hoppe

I have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
You return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
You accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.

- Lao Tzu

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

~ Shakespeare

If you take the time it takes it takes less time.

-Pat Parelli

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

~ Horace Walpole

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

~ Walter Bagehot

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

-William Gibson

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

When will the titty board return so I can continue wasting time more efficiently?

"Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it."

-Luke Salisbury

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Austin O'Malley

all crimes should be treasured if they bring thee pleasure somehow

Cradle of Filth

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."

- Will Rogers

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

-- Helen Hayes

Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.

-- Maori proverb

Is the fucking your get really worth the fucking you get?

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

~ Mark Twain

CHRISTMAS

The approach of Christmas brings harrassment and dread to many excellent people. They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and they never know what to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three weeks of hard and anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they are so dissatisfied with the result, and so disappointed that they want to sit down and cry. Then they give thanks that Christmas comes but once a year.

- Mark Twain
- Following the Equator

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

~Mark Twain

"Why don’t you write books people can read?"

-Nora Joyce, to her husband James

"A Journey of a thousand Li begins with a single step."
-Chinese Proverb

"ahhhhhhh my ass hurts"

-man of goatse

ach! ich muss nach hamburg fahren, mit fünf kinder und ein hund.
töt mich

The meeting of two personalitites is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~ Carl Jung

Leila Pahlavi.

"What power has love but forgiveness?
In other words
by its intervention
what has been done
can be undone.
What good is it otherwise?"

-William Carlos Williams

I hate shopping malls.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

~ J.K. Rowling

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

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