Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

~Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

"You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him to find it within himself." -Gallileo


-and my sig quotes, too

P.S. These are really good thoughts/quotes, guys!

The ending is not yet written.

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less."
Brendan Francis.

"You shoulda been there, Will!" - Phil, on something very unimportant

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all the hurt.

Max Lerner (1902-1992)
Journalist

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

-Author Unknown

Bored to Tears

Tired Of This
Done With That
Never Satisfied With Where I'm At
I Sit And Think
What To Do
Just A Motherfuckin' Bore
Without A Clue

Shot My Drugs
Drank My Booze
Tired Of Joy And Self Abuse
Eternally Jaded Through And Through
Just A Self Loathing Dick
Without A Clue

Far Beyond High
Dramatically Low
Eternal Stare As If I Care To Know
All Of This Struggle
All Of This Work
In The End You Die Like Some Moronic Jerk


Zakk Wylde

I have great respect for everything he writes songs about... I can relate to just about all of them.. good stuff too

if you like ozzy you ppl will love him ;)

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

~ Norman Cousins

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Riley
Professional basketball coach

Those who fly closest to the Sun
cast The Largest Shadows.

: )

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen,
and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
-Buk

There are 2 types of people in this world. There is me and there is everyone else.

"......For my ally in the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. It's energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we...not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you...me...the tree...the rock...everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!"
-Yoda (Empire Strikes Back)

We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.

-Elaine Cumming

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

French proverb

To be born free is an accident.
To live free is a challenge.
To remain free is an obligation.

Being a Chemical Engineering major means doing eight times the work of a business major who will one day be your boss.

There will always be a conflict between "good" and "good enough."

Henry Martyn Leland (1843-1932)
Mechanical engineer

Once, I thought I was wrong, but, I was mistaken.

The person is smart but people are stupid.

People have to push each other; and when they are done, they have to pull one another.

~ My friend JB

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

- Mark Twain
- Roughing It

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

~ Marie Beyon Ray

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Statesman

Do unto other as they would do unto you...but do it to them first.

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

...and on a slightly lighter note:

Only failure can be achieved without effort.

Its always flat in the office.

~A frequent discussion in the world of construction.~

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Moderators should be moderated.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do

Try picking your nose with a fork, its fun.

-best friend

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

John Morley (1838-1923)
Statesman

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

~ Chief Seattle

When you point your finger at someone, you have three others pointing at you...Unknown

I really like that last qoute Minx, Thanks.

When you brighten the eyes of a child, you ignite the power of hope in the world.

J.R.V.A.

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

Angela Lansbury

partying with an ex with her new boyfriend is a real downer

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

~ Plato

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

"Every miracle begins with a problem"

"wanna rip my brothers throat out and strangle him with it...."

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

~ Andy Warhol

This is a dictatorship and since I'm the one with the dick I have all the tatorship....

"overheard this at a friends house when he was arguing with his wife about a frikin basketball game" LOL

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.
Kelly Miller (1863-1939)
Educator

I'd rather be unliked for who I am
than liked for who I'm not.

Know thyself -- Socrates

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
Writer

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.

Buddah

Woohoo, that's one of my favourites!

You can't fix stupid.
-Jim White (the Big Bumper)

Try to leave the world a little sillier than you found it. :)
-Norm Nathan

Remember this: Your brain is not a museum for the past, or a lumber room for the present; it is a laboratory for the future, even if the future is only five minutes ahead of you..
John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966)
British Army Major General

"Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. "

Chose rather to be strong of soul, rather than strong of body.

~ Pythagoras

I love these, folks!

Don't sweat the small stuff- heck, don't sweat the big stuff either.

Nothing persists except change.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Beverly Sills
Opera singer

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

-Richard Bach
Writer

Don't center on your own anxieties, Obi-Wan, keep your concentration Here and Now, where it belongs."
-QuiGon Jin (Star Wars Ep. 1)

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

~ Cicero

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You can imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.

~ George Bernard Shaw

"Dreams are a gateway to the soul"

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany (1817-1882)
Poet

The errors to avoid are those that eliminate opportunities to try again.

Lazar Goldberg

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Joyce Brothers
Psychologist

Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine.

Dan Millman
Speaker and writer

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

-- Eugene Fitch Ware
Victorian poet

I'm fucked up.

You love me.

That's makes you fucked up too.

"Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings."
- W. Burroughs

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Lexicographer and writer

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it.

Neale Donald Walsch

the only thing worse than eating fast food is working with fast food

-me

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Reginald B. Mansell

Sometimes I think that racism will not go away until people stop admitting that it exists.

That's not the best way to express what I feel, that sentence almost sounds like I want to ignore racism, but that's not the case. The more we talk and complain about racism the more we are inclined to think that it happens when it actually isn't and then the cycle continues.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership consultant

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
—e. e. cummings

why does the night fall and the sun break
-my math teacher

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
—Douglas Adams

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Writer

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy any place.

Ernie Banks
Major league baseball player

Would anyone miss me if I disappeared (outside of family)?

Ego provides you with the mechanism to affect everyone around you negatively to bring them down so that you can feel better about yourself. --Edward Toupin

People often say that this person or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrist

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

-John Beecher

If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want.

Author unknown

Murphy's Law :: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Murphy's Law :: Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Declare your mission--and then live it!

Tom Welch
Career coach

It's only time until someone else wins. Don't get used to it.


You can't be whatever you want to be.

Where the FUCK did my glasses go?

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Politician and philosopher

You kissed me like you meant it.


And I knew that you meant it.

Good ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. D. Jackson

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
Professional football coach

You know, everytime I try to go where I really want to be, It's already where I am. Cause I am already there.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Earl Wilson (1907-1987)
Columnist

I you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.....