Favorite Quotes...

Say not, "I have found the truth,"
but rather, " I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul."
Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.

-- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Listen to the mustn'ts, child, / Listen to the don'ts
Listen to the shouldn'ts, / The impossibles, the won'ts
Listen to the never-haves, / Then listen close to me:
ANYTHING can happen, child
ANYTHING can be.

-- Shel Silverstein

This isn't who it would be, if it wasn't who it is

-- Phish, "The Wolfman's Brother"

And some they do and some they don't
With some you just can't tell.
And some they will and some they won't
With some it's just as well.

-- Supertramp, "goodbye stranger"

A tired mind become a shape shifter,
Everybody need a mood lifter.
Everybody need reverse polarity.

Everybody got mixed feelings
about the function and the form.
Everybody got to deviate from the norm.
Everybody got to elevate from the norm.

-- Rush, "Vital Signs"

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

-- Albert Einstein

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

-- Chinese proverb

Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out.
Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring.
Ecstacy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

-- Tom Robbins

"Go to red alert."

"Are you sure sir, that will mean changing the bulb!".

-- Rimmmer & Kryten, Red Dwarf

I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium."

-- Steven Wright

"Our Lives are what our thoughts make of it"

-- Marcus Aurelius

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

-- Anais Nin

"Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."

-- Karen Horney

"The art of being happy lies in the power of expecting happiness from common things."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

-- Taltos

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

-- Mark Twain

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

-- George Carlin

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Too much sanity may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Perhaps to be practical is madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it ought to be.

-- Cervantes

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets"

-- The Brigader, from Dr. Who

"Believing is seeing."

--Disimoni's Rule of Cognition

Do or do not. There is no try.

-- Yoda

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles, and misguided men. "

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."

--Martha Washington

"A flower doesn't grow any faster because you are pulling on it." - Gilles Letourneau

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