Meggie's Favorite Quotes

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Meggie's Favorite Quotes

Welcome to My Favorite Quotes page, I'm Meggie. I've always loved quotes and I've collected a good bit over time and thought it would be nice to slap some of them on a website, so here they are. I'll be adding more and more on a regular basis so keep checking back. I hope you like them and enjoy the site, its nothing fancy but enjoy anyway. Oh and don't forget to sign the Guestbook! Do you have a favorite quote thats not on my list? E-mail it to me, and if I like it I'll add it onto my list!

"Laugh until your cheeks hurt." "In vain have I struggled ... it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." -Mr. Darcy "There is nothing worse than being ordinary." "You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."- John Davis "Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can stand." "Find a guy who will stay awake just to watch you sleep." "Love is when you look into someones eyes and go all the way into their soul, and you both know ... instantly." "I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost "Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." "I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation." "Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet." "Surrendering to reality is a tranquil suicide." "Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night." - Romeo & Juliet "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while." - Princess Bride "Don't frown because you never know whos falling in love with your smile." "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it." "To thine own self be true." - Shakespeare "I would rather die on my feet than surrender on my knees." "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - Gimli - Lord of the Rings "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." "Courage is found in unlikely places." - Gildor -Lord of the Rings "I have a dream." - Martin Luther King "I myself am ... strange and unusual." "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Einstein "Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." - Einstein "Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground." - Einstein "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." - Einstein "When I die I wish to come back as one of her tears. What man would be so lucky as to have been conceived in her heart, born in her eyes, live on her cheeks, and die at her lips." "Love is ... running into his arms, colliding with his heart, and exploding into his soul." "When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." "For you I would stop the very rotation of the earth, simply to keep one moment forever." "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among stars." - Les Brown "Under all speech that is good for anything, there is a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time." "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief, and that love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulgahm "To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle." "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso "No one can go back and make a new beginning, but everyone can start here and make a brand new end." "Change is never easy. You fight to hold on, you fight to let go." "The only time a goodbye is painful is when you know you'll never say hello again." "If you cry because the sun has left your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespear "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts." - Shakespear "'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul." "The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." - Anon "When you kiss me, without uttering a single word, you speak to my soul." - Anon "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." - Anon "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow". - Anon "If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." - Anon "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." - Anon "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Einstein "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Einstein "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Einstein "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Einstein "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all." - Anatole France "The eyes are the windows to the soul; if you look into them long enough, one's true self is revealed." - Nicole Dawson "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau "I am what I am and that is all I am and I am it." "I never let schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost. "Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts, the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seem to impart a quiet to the mind." - Jonathan Edwards "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Plato "I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane." - Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac "Its the quiet ones you have to watch out for." "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge "After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true." - Spock, "Amok Time" "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." - Luciano de Crescenzo "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson "I like a man who grins when he fights." - Sir Winston Churchill "Education is very important. School, however, is another matter." "You are only what you are when no one is looking" - Robert C. Edwards "A stranger loses half his charm the day he is no longer a stranger." - Genevieve Antoine Dariaux "Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." - Veronica A. Shoffstall "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry "No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." - Carrie Snow "I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet." - Denis Waitely "If you want to be happy, be." "Have you ever loved someone so much it hurt?" "Earth my body. Water my blood. Air my breath. Fire my spirit." "Some people exist just to annoy me!" - Garfield "Not to decide is to decide." - Harvey Cox "If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance." "Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour." - Ovid "People will always talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them ... you affected their lives, they didn't affect yours." - Anon "Pain is temporary. Pride is forever." - Anon "Presence is more than just being there." - Malcolm Forbes "Always behave like a duck; keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." - Lord Barbizon "Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries of rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow." "There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top." - Anya Seton "If I could wish for one thing, it would be to have nothing to wish for." "You know it's a best friend, when you can sit on the porch swing for hours, not say a word, and feel like you've just had the best conversation of your life." "You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face." - Jon Bon Jovi "Passion + Persistence = Possibility" - Jon Bon Jovi "Keep the faith, you know your gonna live through the rain." - Bon Jovi "Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." - Nora Ephron "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax. Of cabbages, and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot. And whether pigs have wings." - Lewis Carroll "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruples. Take it and copy it." - Mark Twain "The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon "Don't get mad, get even." - Joseph P. Kennedy "There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought." - Elbert Hubbard "The only thing about a man that is a man ...is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse." - Archibald MacLeish "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business." - Tom Robbins "I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns." - John Jay Chapman "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." "Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee." - Alexander King "When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years." - Mark Twain "The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." - Mencius "See I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way." - Exodus 23:20 "Never give advice in a crowd." - Arab Proverb "Getting what you wish for is the test of whether you understand what you really need." - Scott Harrison "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - George Halas "There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in." - Friedrich Hebbel "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight Eisenhower "A rainy day is the perfect time to sleep." "Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators." - Albert Camus "Content thyself to be obscurely good." - Joseph Addison "Sit and daydream, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." - Longfellow "One for all, and all for one" - Three Musketeers "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A sobering thought; what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" - Jane Wagner "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." - Charles Evans Hughes "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler "Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde "The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." - Henrik Ibsen "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." - Jesse Jackson "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt "Not all those who wander are lost." - Bilbo - Lord of the Rings "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent Van Gogh "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov "I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years." - Truman Capote "It all boils down to whether someone thinks what you do with your time is wasting it. The extrovert scolds the introvert for staying in the house all day when there is a whole world out there, while the introvert laughs at the extrovert because he has all he needs in his room, and needn't waste energy running about." - Nick Bensem "I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got." - Margaret Mitchell "Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." - Margaret Mitchell "Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction." - Oneirocritica, 2nd century AD "Romance means making love to his soul without ever touching his body." - Anon. "The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars." - Paracelsus "He who feels it, knows it more." - Bob Marley "Don't let your mind rule over your heart." "There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for." "If kissing was just two people touching lips, it wouldn't touch our hearts and bind our souls the way it does." "Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child "Open your heart and let the sun shine in" "There is a garden in her face, where roses and white lilies grow." - Thomas Campion "Where should a woman wear purfume?" a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed" I said." - Coco Chanel "The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up with the rain." "The flesh is fairest that farthest from the bone." "There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself meeting them." - Phyllis Bottome "I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror." - Elaine Dundy "Let us permit Nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do." - Michel de Montaigne "Better by far you should forget and smile. Than that you should remember and be sad." - Christina Rossetti "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Colette "So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often." - John Donne "In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you." - Hardy Kruger "Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers "The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." - John Vance Cheney "Let your tears come. Let them water your soul." - Eileen Mayhew "The great doing of little things, makes the great life." - Eugenia Price "Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." - Colin Wilson "One of the most adventurous things left for us to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." - E. V. Lucas "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." - Peter Nivio Zarlenga "Sometimes you say the smallest thing, or smile, and it makes my entire day better." "A kiss is just a kiss until you find the one you love. A hug is just a hug until you find the one your always thinking of. A dream is just a dream until it comes true. Love is just a word until its proven to you." "Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream." "Normal people scare me." "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." - Walter Lippman "If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me." - Ted Nugent Things around us, houses, jobs, cars, they're props, they're settings for our love. The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives, empty settings. How easy to chase after the settings and forget the diamonds. The only thing that matters at the end of our stay on this earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?" - The Bridge Across Forever "Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde "We taste the joys of heaven above when really, truly making love." "Adolesence is the time in life when girls quit believing in fairy tales and start to believe in love." "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." - Chinese Proverb "Good judgement comes from experience ... experience comes from poor judgement." "You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs." - Mark Twain "I am an idealist. I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way." - Carl Sandburg "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." - Abe Lincoln "Time you enjoy waisting is not time waisted." "When you get in a tight place & everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place & time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe "He who has help has hope, & he who has hope has everything." - Arab proverb "Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman "Come Away With Me" -Song- "Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me." - Norah Jones "Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud "Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while." "Every now and again take a good look at something not made with handsa mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world." - Sidney Lovett "Be still and know that I am with you." - English prayer "Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God." - Lenny Bruce "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." - Rabindranath Tagore "I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Hearts affections and the Truth of the Imagination." - John Keats "Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect." - John Keats "Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking." - Kahlil Gibran "The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne "Art is running away without ever leaving home." - Twyla Tharp "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?" - Satchel Paige "If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good." - Dr. Seuss "Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself he'll never cease to be amused." "Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickenson "Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life." - From the "Sanskrit Salutation of the Dawn" "So you see, imagination needs moodling, long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." - Brenda Ueland "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - The 14th Dalai Lama "The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up." "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward." - Spanish proverb "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too." - Teresa of Avila "Every animal knows more than you do." - Native American Proverb "If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy." - Jed Clampett "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Stephen Wright "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." - Betty Smith "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo "...the fog is rising." - Emily Dickinson's last words "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward." "The good and the wise lead quiet lives." - Euripides "To lose is to learn." - Anon "Learn what you are, and be such." - Pinder "We were written in the stars, my love, all that separated us, was time, the time it took to read the map which was placed within our hearts, to find our way back to one another." "Within you, I lose myself, without you, I find myself, searching to be lost again." "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same." "Every now and then, I wish it were then instead of now." - Thomas Michael "The giving of love is an education in itself." - Eleanor Roosevelt "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." - Margaret Anderson "I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it ..." - John Mayer "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe." - Claudia Black "Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain." - Kahlil Gibran "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln "Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it." - Diane Mariechild "Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster." - Weston H. Agor "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love." - Sophocles "High on a mountain, carved on a rock, are these three words: Forget Me Not." "What is meant to be will always find a way." "The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling." - Katarina Witt "There's one thing a quote does that nothing and no one else can do ... it can become a part of you. You may never meet the person who said it, but that person is now a companion. Quotes help you get over pain, feel love, make you smile and laugh, and help you through those tough days when you think that no one else knows what you're going through." "I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. When I was twelve, the words was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present, and into the future. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see out destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put in the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for Gods sake. And you know why were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wilderness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad at what they allowed to whither in themselves. After you get so far away fro it, though, you cant really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get all weepy at movies, its because in that dark theatre, the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and theyre left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm. The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks, and get crippled. Its not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You dont know its happening until one day you feel like youve lost something, but youre not sure what it is." -Robert McCammon "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius "To love one who loves you, To admire one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven." - Delphine de Girardin "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." - Christopher Morley "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in a square hole, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, and are the ones who'll do it." - Apple Computer TV Ad

Reading and reflecting on inspiring life quotes, learning what famous people have said, and applying it to oneself is a form of self-growth. By introspection, people become stronger, more understanding, and more tolerant.

Quotations are not simply aphorisms to put on a poster and hang on the wall. Comparing a quotation to the life of the sweet person who said it or wrote it gives context and meaning to the words. If taken to heart, it can change a person's attitude in life or help in reaching a goal.

The quotes that follow are from modern and historical famous and influential people. Whether the people lived long ago, or are alive today, they are role models. These quotes motivate and inspire people to do more, achieve goals and improve their lives.

The quotations in this page are all themed toward success. They reveal what success means, finding opportunities leading to success, the hard work behind accomplishments, and the attitudes and qualities of successful people. "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are." - Alphonse Karr

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." - Charles Reade

"It is a good thing for an eneducated man to read a book of quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - John F. Kennedy

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." - Aldous Huxley

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." - Aristotle

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton

"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own." - Antonio Porchia

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Einstein

"How embarrassing to be human." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Reality is for people who lack imagination."

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt

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

"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."
- Bill Cosby

"A man's life is what his thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression." - Mark Helprin

"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again." - Todd L. Bradbury

"Don't criticize what you don't understand."

"All you need is love." - John Lennon

"The best advice you can ever give or recieve is to be yourself." - Tesha Olivas

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." - Aparajito Sen

"Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure."

"To the world you may be somebody, but to somebody you may be the world."

"It is better to open your eyes and say you don't understand, than to close your eyes and say you don't believe."

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

"Those who are poor, smile at what they have, yet those who have good fortune, frown at what they do not have."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"Information is not knowledge." - Frank Zappa

"The best index to a person's character is how a person treats people who can't do them any good or can't fight back." - Abigail Van Buren

"It was a million tiny things like that, when you add them all up, that meant we were suppose to be together, and I knew it." - Sleepless in Seattle

"The simple thought of him means more to me then the presence of others."

"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along." - Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi

"Love will pass by many times, but true love will stop to look."

"A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight."

"If you get to heaven before I do, make a little hole and pull me up."

"Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when I was six and my biggest problem was what kind of dress to put on my Barbie's or whether or not I had enough Lego's to build a fort."

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens

"Never fear the shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining nearby." - Ruth E. Renkel

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days your the statue." - Roger C. Anderson

"May your world be full of color and your crayons never melt."
- Tymm

"Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow."

"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it." - Margaret Chase Smith

"Everything is always ok in the the end. If it's not ok, then it isn't the end."

"If I won't be myself, who will?" - Alfred Hitchcock

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty." - Christopher Morley

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato

"You're not free in life until you are free of wanting others approval."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." - Dr. Seuss

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Some of the best things in life will come to you when you're not looking for them."

"People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be" - Abraham Lincoln

"All the darkness in the world could not put out the light of one small candle."

"A good quote is worth a thousand words." - Jonathan King

"Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde

"When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming." - Robert Heinlein

"When you feel lonely, look to the sky and know that I am somewhere beneth that same sky, thinking of you and wishing you were there with me."

"My wish is not to mean everything to everyone but to mean something to someone."

"I lie and bed and night and wonder where that special person is, whats his name, whats he doing or thinking, what color are his eyes, what do his hands look like, but most of all I wonder when I'll find him."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The eyes have one language everywhere." - George Herbert

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." - Cervantes

"A man is literally what he thinks" - James Allen

"The secret of life is in art." - Oscar Wilde

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like no one is watching."

"Live the live you love. Love the life you live."

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." - Billings

"Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance."

"I think that if two people are meant to be together when they see each other they get this incredible feeling like none other, a special feeling that is incredible and they know that they want and are supposed to spend the rest of their life with that person ... and you just know and that is love at first sight."

"There are those who do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But how else to explain love at first sight?" - Don Juan DeMarco

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight." - Christopher Marlowe

"Some things are true whether you believe them or not." - City of Angels

"Don't you just hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to talk about bull in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody really special, when you can just shut
the heck up for a minute and comfortably share a silence." - Pulp Fiction

"I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away." - Before Sunrise

"He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl." - Colin Raye

"Love & electricity are one in the same my dear, if you do not feel the jolt in your soul, every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love." - C. J. Franks

"Eyes that long to see you, ears that listen to hear you, lips that yearn to kiss you, a heart that beats to love you, arms that ache to hold you, hands that need to touch you, a body that lives to fulfill you, a spirit that dies without you. Thats, thats ... love."

VAGABOND's HOUSE -Poem- (shortened)

West of the sunset stands a house, there... and east of the dawn; North to the Arctic runs my yard; South to the Pole, my lawn; Seven seas are to sail my ships. To the end of the earth ... beyond. Drifters' gold is for me to spend for I am a vagabond. Fabulous cities are mine to loot. Queens of the earth to wed; fruits of the world are mine to eat; the couch of the king, my bed. All that I see is mine to keep. Foolish, the fancy seems. But I am rich with the world of Sight. The coin of the realm of dreams. When I have a house..as I sometime may ... I'll suit my fancy in every way. I'll fill it with things that have caught my eye in drifting from Iceland to Molakai. It won't be correct or in period style. But ... oh, I've thought for a long, long while. - Don Blanding

GOLD - Poem-

My treasure chest is filled with gold.
Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . .
Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . .
Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . .
Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . .
Poet's gold and artist's gold . . .
Gold that can not be bought or sold -
Gold. - Don Blanding

"Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice." - Don Blanding 1894-1957

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today...it's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

"Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is Rapidly again. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'." - Bob Dylan

"Average is Your Enemy." - Lance Armstrong

"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyways."

"All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us."

"Kindness is the language in which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

"Dont be afraid to take big steps. You cant cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George

"The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon." - Calista Flockhart

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. " - Henry Ford

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"It is better to be hated for who you are, then to be loved for who you are not."

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear."
-Monroe Forester

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood. "
-Stephen Covey

"Still waters run deep."

"Tomorrow, is another day." - Scarlett - Gone with the Wind

"You have to kiss an awful lot of frogs, before you kiss a prince." - Grafitto

"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it." - Douglas Yates

"A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are." - Jack Smith

"Do unto to others and you would be done."

"A gossip, is a person with a keen sense of rumor."

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-by-day basis." - Magaret Bonnaro

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." - Bertrand Russel

"My idea of a agreeable person is one who agress with me." - Benjamin Disraeli

"I don't really care to belong to any club that would accept me as a member." - Groucho Marx

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves." - Will & Ariel Durant

"Don't step on my blue suede shoes." - Elvis

"Try to please everbody. That's the formula for failure." - Howard W. Newton

"Sometimes the bell, swings the bellman."

"Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"You were once wild, don't let them tame you." Isadora Duncan

"If I keep my good character I shall be rich enough." - Platonicus

"If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry S Truman

"Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet." - Shakespeare

"I've developed a new philosophy ... I only dread one day at a time." - Charlie Brown

"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." - Marianne Williamson

Try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio, and go toward all the life there is with all the belief you can find and all the truth you can muster. Be true. Be brave. Stand. All the rest is darkness. - Stephen Kings "IT"

Thats the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller. But for want of an understanding ear. - Stephen Kings Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

"Everything has beauty. Not everyone sees it." - Gandhi

"The great doing of little things, makes the great life." - Eugenia Price

"All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there
in
riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million
decisions that led to that moment." - Richard Bach, Running from
Safety

"I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not
in this world to live up to mine. I am I and you are you, if we find each
other that's beautiful, if not it can't be helped."

"For every door of happiness that closes, another one opens, but
sometimes we
are too busy looking at the closed door to notice."

"Grace under pressure - Definition of "guts" - Ernest Hemingway

"Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau

"Heal the past; live the present; dream the future."

"Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing."
- T.Amos

"I wish I may ... I wish I might ... be the one you wish for tonight."

"What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you start?"

"Last night I hugged my pillow and dreamt of you ... I wish that someday I'd dream about my pillow and I'd be hugging you."

"I'm an angel. Honest. The horns are just there to hold the halo up straight."

"Love at first sight has everything to do with fate and nothing to do with common sense."

"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love." - Lord Byron

"Fall in love, enjoy a dream, dance a journey" - Rebecca Mitchell

"Ninety percent of people don't want to hear about your problems, and the other ten percent are glad it's you."

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blu." - The Weprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napolean Hill

"There's no place like home." Wizard of Oz

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile." - Lynda Barry

"A dreamer lives for eternity." - Anon

"Imagination is the reality of the dreamer." - Scott Ringenbach

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experiance of ages, may be preserved by quotation." - Isaac D' Israeli

"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own." - Plutarch

"He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about." - Oscar Wilde

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." - Goethe

"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another." - George Bernard Shaw

"I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world." - Madonna Louise Ciccione

"Knowledge is contagious. Infect."

"I wish they would only tae as I am." - Vincent Van Gogh

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Even a rose goes through a lot of dirt before it blossoms."

"Love isn't always on time."

"I put my heart and my soul nto my work, and have lost my mind in the process." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Even a rose goes through a lot of dirt before it blossoms."

"Love isn't always on time."

"As certain as stars at night, or dawn after darkness,
Inherent as the lift of the blowing grass. Whatever your despair or your frustration .This, too, will pass"

"The space between your fingers were created so that another person's fingers could fill them in."

"And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by." - John Masefield

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts

"You can observe a lot by watching." - Yogi Berra

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." - Robert Montgomery

"The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery." - Francis Bacon

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

"If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost." - Herb Cohen

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"There's a wonder in the way we're always free
To change the world by changing how we see." - Cyndi Craven

"Look within! ... The secret is inside you." - Hui-neng

"A lively understandable spirit. Once entertained you.
It will come again. Be still. Wait." - Theodore Roethke

"What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you." - Rabbi Pinhas

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form." - Rumi

"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly." - Carl Rogers

"Don't be afraid to be amazing." - Andy Offutt Irwin

"Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others . . .
And your very flesh shall be a great poem." - Walt Whitman

"Light is good from whatever lamp it shines."

"Muddy water, let stand becomes clear." - Lao-tse

"There were times when my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails." - Spencer Tracy

"There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God." - Montaigne

"Mother: Its broccoli, dear.
Child: I say its spinach, and I say the hell with it." - New Yorker Cartoon, 1928

"I'am better than my reputation."

"In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too." - Suzanne Moarny

"Have the courage to act instead of react."

"I do not seek. I find" - Picasso

"A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions."

"We must like what we have when we don't have what we like." - Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." - Plato

"Just being yourself, being who you are is a successful rebellion."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

"Seek the wisdom of the ages,but look at the world through the eyes of a child."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Live your life as an Exclamation,not an Explanation."

"Remember always,that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have the obligation to be one."

"The world is a comedy for those who think; a tragedy for those who feel."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Things may be bad, or things couldn't be better, but one thing's for sure - they'll change."

"A ship in harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for."

"All my like I had been looking for something, and everywehre I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself." - Ralph Ellison

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." - Johann von Goethe

"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are." - Julius Charles Hare

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?"

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice." - Steven D. Woodhull

"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." - Alice Walker

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." - Janis Joplin

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy." - Hippocrates

"When you throw dirt, you lose ground."

"When I saw you earlier I knew that we had been together before. That's what love at first sight is. It's a reconnection of two old entertwined souls." - From the movie, "When the Party's Over"

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it." - Paul Vixie

"Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." -
H.L. Mencken

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift

"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself." - Elbert Hubbard

"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." - Paul Valéry

"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." - Henry Ward Beecher
"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G.B. Burgin

"There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself." - Samuel Johnson

"Any fool can make a rule - and every fool will mind it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it." - Albert Schweitzer

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it." - Marcus T. Cicero

"Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ..." - Henri Frederic Amiel