Quotes

With love, there are no rules.  Some may try to control
their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior;
others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on
relationships - but this is all folly.  The heart decides, and 
what it decides is all that really matters.
      All of us have had this experience.  At some point, we have
said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not 
worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we 
receive.  We suffer because we our love is going unrecognized.
We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.  
      But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering,
 for in every love lies the seed of our growth.  
...Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are 
illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the
 inhibitions and preconceptions of their era.  They have been 
able to sing, to laugh, to pray out loud; they have danced and 
shared what Saint Paul called "the madness of saintliness."    
They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world
and have no fear of loss.  True love is an act of total surrender.
......One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or
protect someone.  If we act that way, we are perceiving the other
as a simple object, and ourselves as wise and generous persons.
This has nothing to do with love.  To love is to be in communion
with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
         ~Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Duct tape is like the force. 
It has a light side, a dark side, 
and holds the universe together. 
-source unknown 

"Well dog my cats!" Said Bubba Fats 
"Here's one more burnt out soul, 
Whose searching for an alchemist 
To turn his trip to gold. 
But he won't find it in no junkie's stash 
Or on no druggist's shelf. 
Son, if you seek the perfect high, 
Find it in yourself." 
-Silverstein(?) 

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, 
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. 
-Herm Albright 

Great spirits have always 
encountered violent opposition 
from mediocre minds. 
-Albert Einstein 

Some men see things and ask, "Why?" 
I dream of things that never were 
and ask, "Why not?" 
-Bobby Kennedy 

A friend is someone 
who knows everything about you, 
and likes you anyways. 


Be yourself, 
because everyone else 
is already taken. 


The Earth was not given to you from your parents, 
It was loaned to you from you children. 


Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. 
-Minnie Smith 

Everything that irritates us about others 
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. 
-Carl Jung 

Life can only be understood backwards, 
but it must be lived forwards. 
-Soron Kierkeguard 

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part 
that wonders what the part that isn't thinking, isn't thinking of. 
-They Might Be Giants 

Next time you think you're perfect, 
try walking on water. 


Time heals what reason cannot. 


If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, 
then what do you need tomorrow for? 
-Rabbi Nohman of Bratslaw 

Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.


The man who strikes first admits 
that his ideas have given out. 
-Chinese Proverb 

Sometimes, I think that the surest sign that 
intelligent life exsists elsewhere in the universe 
is that none of it has tried to contact us. 
-Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) 

If the world were a logical place, 
men would ride sidesaddle. 
-Becca (?) 

If you got a today, you don't worry about tommorrow, 
because you don't need it, and as a matter of fact, 
as we discover on the terrain, tomorrow never happens, man. 
Its all the same fucking day, man. 
-Janis Joplin 

all i can say is that my life is pretty plain. i like watching 
the puddles gather rain. and all i can do, is just pour some tea
for two and speak my point of view but its not sane. its not
sane. i just want someone to say to me, whoa oh ho oh, i'll
always be there when you wake. you know i like to keep my cheeks
dry today. so stay with me and i'll have it made, and i don't
understand why i sleep all day, and i start to complain when
theres no rain, and all i can do is read a book to stay awake,
and it rips my life away but its a great escape. escape.
escaaape... all i can say is that my life is pretty plain.
you don't like my point of view, you think that i'm insane. its
not sane. its not saaane. i just want someone to say to me. whoa
oh ho oh. i'll always be there when you wake. you know i'd like
to keep my cheeks dry today. so stay with me and i'll have it
made. and i'll have it made. i'll have it made. 
-blind melon (no rain) 

Every human being is intended to have a charactor of his own; 
to be what no other is, and to do what no other can. 
-Channing 

People are stupid. A PERSON is smart, but PEOPLE are stupid. 
-Men In Black 

Get with the times, Greg. 
There's a new thing called 'women's lib,' 
which means women get whatever they want. 
-Marcia Brady (The Brady Bunch Movie) 

We take these risks, not to escape life, 
but to keep life from escaping us. 


To dream of a person you would like to be 
is to waste the person you are. 


We're all pretty bizarre. 
Its just some of us are better at hiding it, 
that's all. 
-The Breakfast Club 

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.


[Warning on knife]: Caution. Blade is sharp. Keep out of children. 


Dyslexics of the world, untie!


It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you
are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. 
-Mark Twain

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers. 
     Michael Aulfrey 

The word 'politics' is derived from the word poly, meaning
 'many', and the word ticks, meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. 
     Larry Hardiman 

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open
and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth
more than money. 
     Joey Bishop 

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a
conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to
the prevailing standard of nonconformity. 
     Bill Vaughan 

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut
stupid movies, only complicated stupid movies which make us
wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we
are missing. 
     Gamel Abdel Nasser 


A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling (by Mark Twain)

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c" would be dropped to
be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no
longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would 
be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with 
later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and 
"one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well
abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the 
"g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement
would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless
double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the
rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it
wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c","y"
and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez
-- tu riplais "ch","sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen,
aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl,
kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
 

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-Albert Einstein

"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." 
-Oscar Wilde

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 
     Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
affairs which properly concern them. 
     Paul Valery 

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn
something from him. 
     Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's
unfamiliar territory. 
     Paul Fix 

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. 
     Indira Gandhi 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. 
     Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. 
     Theodore Dreiser