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Angels come to visit us and we only know when they are gone.
Everyone says you only fall in love once but thats not true, everytime I hear your voice I fall in love all over again.
You laugh because I'm different I laugh because you're all the same.
If I could be anything I would be your tear, so I could be born in your eye, live down your cheek and die on your lips.
You never know what you have until you lose it, and once you lose it, you can never get it back.
You know your in love when the hardest thing to say is goodbye.
Love is like falling down... in the end you're left hurt, scarred, and with a memory of it forever.
I don't need your attitude, I have one of my own.
To say that you can love one person all your life, is like saying that one candle will continue to burn for as long as you live.
You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefullness, But still, like air, I'll rise.
No where on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair.
Fear is nothing but the anticipation of pain, be it physical, mental, spiritual or emotional.
Sarcasm keeps you from telling people what you really think of them.
You don't fail if you fall, you fail if you don't try to get up.
Who do you turn too when the only one who can dry your tears is the one who made you cry.
The cutest kittens have the sharpest claws.
Tears are words the heart can't say.
True love is like a ghost, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
I dont have an Attitude Problem...Its supposed to be like this.
Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces.
Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.
Its not an attitude,its the way I am.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything.
If you are the flame, you can't be burned.
If love was like a war..I'm glad I surrendered myself to you.
Insanity is just anger put to good use!
If you blame others for your failures, do you credit them for your achievements?
Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
Climb high.
Climb far.
Your goal the sky.
Your aim the star.
Walk on a rainbow trail;
Walk on a trail of song,
and all about you will be beauty.
There is a way out of every dark mist,
over a rainbow trail.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes . . . just be an illusion.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit; occidentist telum est.
A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
You never know what happiness a simple act of kindness will bring about.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Show me the country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country in which there is no liberty.
In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
A person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them.
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all it's shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Dreams are illustrations . . . from the book your soul is writing about you.
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
When stars are in the quiet skies,
Then most I pine for thee;
Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us.
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.
Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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.
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.
Love me or hate me but spare me your indifference.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who secure within can say:
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Always love your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Science says: “We must live” and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: “We must die” and seeks how to make us die well.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.
~ Alice Walker, American author
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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.
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is neither, but is praying to his God that someone, preferably himself, will find the reconciliation between the two views.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no matter what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination . . . you can make feast of straw.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differrently.
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
I doubt the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, that child would grow up to be an eggplant.
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
We are the music makers.
We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a theif, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
The story teller makes no choice. Soon you will not hear his voice. His job is to shed light, and not to master. Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold, in hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold.
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light somewhere nearby.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Blessed are the cracked for they shall let in the light!
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility because he is a fool?
The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
If excitement is a mechanism our Creators uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond 'Es muss sein!' (It must be so).
Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell, intro to Animal Farm
The bird that would soar above the level of plain tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.--
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.
When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.
See this door? It’s opening, you’re going through it, and now it’s shutting!
If an insane person doesn't know he's insane, how does a sane person know he's sane?
The lemon, the lime, and the lock. Thank you, that is all." click
It's too bad I'm not a crazy cannibal!
The legless monkey has to die!
~ Mr. Kelley, high school history teacher, discussing social Darwinism and monkeys
Dude . . . it's the sky!
~ Allison, in the middle of a field in Glen Helen, California near the Blockbuster pavillion, looking quite amazed.
Reason’s why I shaved my head:
1. The sky is not green today like it was last week.
2. My cat died and I needed something fuzzy to pet.
3. It runs in the family.
4. I don’t need a boyfriend because boyfriend’s aren’t fuzzy - they’re hairy. And for some reason, the guys don’t get this!"
If you’d been a plowin’ instead a plottin’, you would’ve realized that’s it’s gotten hot an’ the cotton’s gotten rotten!
More crack for old people!
~ Ms. Lambert, ninth grade history teacher. Imagine a small pretty woman in a neon pink dress shouting this and pumping her arms in the air. It was quite funny. smile
sry guys, I'm a quote freak, lmao! rofl rofl
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