 | "The future is yours to decide. Carpe diem!"(12/31) |
| "The unexpected turns can sometimes lead to the best results."(12/30) |
| "Not everything that happens we can control, but we can always choose the way we react."(12/29) |
| "You must do what you feel is right."(12/28) |
| "Poets are aware of the word's inadequacy because they spend their lives struggling to say the unsayable." -- Donald Hall(12/27) |
| "It is not the answer that enlightens, it is the question."(12/24) |
| "Nature is a collective idea, and though its essence exists in each individual of the species, it can never in its perfection inhabit a single object."(12/23) |
| "A creature who's mind is fully closed cannot learn. A creature who's mind is fully open, cannot teach."(12/22) |
| "Learn from the past Look to the future Live every moment"(12/20) |
| "Fairy tales can be real."(12/17) |
| "Good work is its own reward."(12/16) |
| "Good work is its own reward."(12/16) |
| "The shortest moment spent together can make up for all the time spent appart"(12/15) |
| "The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable."(12/14) |
| "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." -- Abraham Maslow(12/13) |
| "When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die." -- Eleanor Roosevelt(12/10) |
| "Doubt is a not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one." -- Voltaire(12/9) |
| "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." -- Agnes Repplier(12/8) |
| "To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life." -- Sir William Osler(12/7) |
| "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein(12/6) |
| "The beast within is more dangerous than any to be found without."(12/3) |
| "There's a fine line between participation and mockery." -- Scott Adams(12/1) |
| "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." -- Mahatma Gandhi(11/30) |
| "Health is not simply the absense of sickness." -- Hannah Green(11/29) |
| "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."(11/26) |
| "To be yourself is the best thing you can be to everyone."(11/25) |
| "Large things can come from small potential."(11/24) |
| "The intention means just as much as the action."(11/23) |
| "Sometimes the apparent twists of fate work to your great advantage."(11/22) |
| "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" -- George Orwell (1984)(11/19) |
| "Things that look bad today will look better tomorrow."(11/18) |
| "There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them." -- J.D. Bernal (The World, the Flesh and the Devil)(11/17) |
| "To conquer others is to know power. To conquer yourself is to know enlightenment."(11/16) |
| "Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company." -- La Rochefoucauld(11/15) |
| "Choosing between right and wrong is easy. What's harder is choosing the more right of two wrongs."(11/12) |
| "In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns bellow." -- John McCrae (In Flanders Fields)(11/11) |
| "The Sage does nothing, and nothing is left undone." -- Lao Tzu(11/10) |
| "Life is a challenge. Like all good challenges, it is most satisfying when met head on."(11/9) |
| "A wise man knows best how little he knows." -- Confusious(11/8) |
| "Be wary of what you say, for it could affect many more people than just yourself."(11/5) |
| "The quality of the time you spend together is more important than most any other thing."(11/4) |
| "Always be mindful of those around you. To do otherwise will make one rude and inconsiderate."(11/3) |
| "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,then , is not an act, but a habit."(11/2) |
| "Our job is not to make the incredible possible. Our job is to make the impossible credible." -- Jerry Olivieri(11/1) |
| "The more experience we get the more we realize how little we know."(10/29) |
| "Problems multiply all at once."(10/28) |
| "True friends will always try to help, even if you don't think you need it. Do not prematurely turn away their help, examine first why it is they have decided to help."(10/27) |
| "Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it."(10/26) |
| "Courtesy if the first rule of any gathering."(10/25) |
| "Time spent with ones loved is time well spent."(10/22) |
| "The hardest problems present the most satisfaction."(10/21) |
| "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." -- Confucious(10/20) |
| "Never let a good plan get in the way of worthwhile spontonaety."(10/19) |
| "The best friend you can be is to just be there when needed."(10/18) |
| "Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." -- Dr. Who(10/15) |
| "Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -- Will Durant(10/14) |
| "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." -- Kilgore Trout(10/13) |
| "Every why hath a wherefore." -- William Shakespeare (A Comedy of Errors)(10/12) |
| "Always be considerate of others. No matter how small you think an issue might be, it would not be an issue if it was not important to someone."(10/11) |
| "The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards." -- Alexander Jablokov(10/8) |
| "It's not just the ups and downs that make life difficult. It's the jerks." -- Alfred E. Neuman(10/7) |
| "A room without books is as a body without a soul." -- Sir John Lubbock(10/6) |
| "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein(10/5) |
| "We never know where time will take us, but it is rarely where we expect to be."(10/4) |
| "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest." -- Confucious(10/1) |
| "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams(30/9) |
| "Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely." -- Kay Lyons(29/9) |
| "Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."(28/9) |
| "The answer is out there. It is the question that drives us." -- Trinity (The Matrix)(27/9) |
| "Your daily agenda must be goal driven. If not, a task driven agenda will perpetuate." -- Glenn Crider(24/9) |
| "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain(23/9) |
| "To love what we do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?" -- Katharine Graham(22/9) |
| "It isn't enough to believe in something; you have to have stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle..." -- Golda Meir(21/9) |
| "Many students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed as a liquid rather than as a solid to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so little nourishment." -- Sidney Harris(20/9) |
| "Most people can do without the essentials, but not without the luxuries."(16/9) |
| "Time is never on your side. Make the most of it you can."(15/9) |
| "In love all of life's contradictions dissolve and dissapear." -- Rabindranath Tagore(14/9) |
| "A Cynic who discovers power is dangerous; a Romantic who discovers power is mad."(10/9) |
| "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." -- Will Durant(9/9) |
| "Stay focused and keep your dreams, and one day they'll come true."(8/9) |
| "The things worth saying cannot be said with words."(7/9) |
| "Remembering is so hard, forgetting should be easier than it is." -- Rasputin (Court of All Kings)(6/9) |
| "It is not what we are, but what we dream we can be." -- Xanadu(3/9) |
| "If you continually give you will continually have."(2/9) |
| "No question is so difficult as one to which the answer is obvious."(1/9) |
| "A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage." -- Blake(31/8) |
| "While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does."(30/8) |
| "It is one thing to tell a lie and get away with the deception. It is a different matter entirely to tell the truth and wonder if your words will be believed." -- Valmont (Shadows on the Hill)(27/8) |
| "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."(26/8) |
| "Your true home is wherever you make it."(25/8) |
| "There are many kinds of gifts, and not all can be bought, though they all have a price." -- Valmont (Shadows on the Hill)(24/8) |
| "Keep your fork... the best is yet to come."(23/8) |
| "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your familly."(20/8) |
| "Absense makes the heart grow fonder."(19/8) |
| "Do not question where inspiration comes from. Inspiration is it's own reason."(18/8) |
| "Education is an admiral thing, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde(17/8) |
| "Unanswered questions are the single most valuable thing we lay before our students." -- Charles M. Vest(16/8) |
| "No one knows exactly where they are going, but some at least can see the path."(13/8) |
| "The right thing can be done for the wrong reason."(12/8) |
| "Trust in the truth. It will never lead you wrong."(11/8) |
| "It all seems so stupid It makes me want to give up But why should I give up When it all seems so stupid" -- Depeche Mode (Shame)(10/8) |
| "If knowledge is power, then to be unknown is to be unconquerable." -- Birth of the Federation(9/8) |
| "When you land after you leap, it is sometimes necessary to spend a little time building up your footing before leaping again."(6/8) |
| "Trust your instincts. More often than not, they will be right."(5/8) |
| "In an orderly world, there's always a place for the disorderly."(4/8) |
| "The power to make things better lies soley within yourself."(3/8) |
| "What makes hell hell is surrender." -- Milton (Paradise Lost)(2/8) |
| "Once one thing is made perfect, another thing goes wrong."(30/7) |
| "If anyone should lay a finger on you or harm a hair of your head there'll be no hiding from my wrath on this, or any other, planet." -- Paula Meehan(29/7) |
| "A wise man once told me that people have the ability to change...the only question is do the people witnessing the change have the cranial capacity to accept the change."(28/7) |
| "Truth faced, leaves a strange taste When joy and sadness meet" -- Bittersweet (Moxy Fruvous)(27/7) |
| "Do not interfere with others right to enjoy life."(26/7) |
| "Your life is your own to live. The onus is on you to make it into somehting enjoyable."(23/7) |
| "You can only help those who want to be helped."(22/7) |
| "The greatest satisfaction in life comes from knowing what you want from it."(21/7) |
| "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -- Helen Keller(20/7) |
| "Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are."(19/7) |
| "When all seems to be going wrong, something is usually going incredibly right."(16/7) |
| "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre." -- Gail Godwin(15/7) |
| "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." -- Alan Watts(14/7) |
| "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower(13/7) |
| "There is rarely a way to tell what is on the inside from the outside."(12/7) |
| "Silence is not always a bad thing. Sometimes more can be said with silence than with the loudest voice."(9/7) |
| "I don't give a damn for any man who can spell a word only one way." -- Mark Twain(8/7) |
| "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde(7/7) |
| "I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing." -- Lady Bracknell, "The Importance of Being Earnest" -- Oscar Wilde(6/7) |
| "The biggest problem in the universe is that no one helps each other." -- Shmi Skywalker(5/7) |
| "Do what you will provided that you harm no one." -- The Witche's Law(2/7) |
| "Always remember your roots. They helped make you who you are."(1/7) |
| "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."(30/6) |
| "If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." -- Anatole France(29/6) |
| "Ignorance is bliss, just try to make the best choices you can while they are yours to make. Don't fight situations, just try to manipulate them for the best. No ones life is without sufferage, accept that which you have no power over. Some know what is coming, and most who do would rather not..."(28/6) |
| "The support you need can come from where you least expect it."(25/6) |
| "Be responsive to the young, sympathetic to the old and weak, patient with the wrong and confused, because you have been all these things during your life."(24/6) |
| "Friends are friends no matter how far away they go."(23/6) |
| "To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting." -- E.E. Cummings(22/6) |
| "A possum must be himself, and being himself he is honest." -- Walt Kelly(21/6) |
| "There are two kinds of people. Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." -- Indira Gandhi(18/6) |
| "The act of communication is as important as the words."(17/6) |
| "Nobody is ever sure."(16/6) |
| "Grammar, which knows how to control even kings..." -- Moliere(15/6) |
| "Love in the face of adversity brings out your true destiny." -- Kurabi(14/6) |
| "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" -- Jesus Christ(11/6) |
| "There is no such thing as an ending. Every ending is its own beginning."(10/6) |
| "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche(9/6) |
| "Judge not unless you yourself are prepared to face judgement."(8/6) |
| "It does not matter how far friends go. True friends will stay friends regardless."(7/6) |
| "You may not like all of me, but that is part of who I am, and I am a package deal. Take me or leave me." -- C. Hamlet Roney(4/6) |
| "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more or less.'" -- Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass)(3/6) |
| "Humans laugh because it hurts so much, because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. Laughter is a bravery, and a sharing: against pain and sorrow and defeat."(2/6) |
| "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." -- Sigmund Freud(1/6) |
| "There's always a bigger fish." -- Qui-Gon Jinn(31/5) |
| "The world is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose." -- J. B. S. Haldane(28/5) |
| "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 and wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." -- Albert Einstein(27/5) |
| "Our days are identical suitcases - all the same size - but some people can pack more into them than others."(26/5) |
| "The true measure of our lives is not how many know your name, but how many you touch."(25/5) |
| "Nothing is ever so good that someone somewhere won't hate it. And vice versa." -- Mark Twain(24/5) |
| "The hunt goes much better when stealth is used."(21/5) |
| "Always there are two, a master and an apprentice." -- Yoda(20/5) |
| "By splitting every affirmation into a negation, humour triggers and engenders 'spontaneous birth' (ingegno) of things. To put it more politically, humor as negativa uncloaks, unmasks, or exposes the 'dirty bottom' of officialdom and the established regime." -- Hwa Yol Jung(19/5) |
| "Perhaps even if nothing else today has any future, our laughter may yet have a future." -- Nietzsche(17/5) |
| "Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in." -- Katherine Mansfied(14/5) |
| "Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends" -- Shel Silverstein [1932-1999], Where The Sidewalk Ends(13/5) |
| "Never look to the past so much that the future is not considered."(12/5) |
| "You control your own life and the ability to make it into whatever you want. the ability and power to shape it comes from within you."(11/5) |
| "It is important to try the untroden path, but be careful; it is likely untroden for a reason."(10/5) |
| "This letter is so long because I do not have time to make it shorter" -- Mark Twain(7/5) |
| "Can the real reason man fears the unknown is because we know ourselves too well."(6/5) |
| "This letter is so long because I do not have time to make it shorter." -- Mark Twain(5/5) |
| "If you pursue two hares, both will escape you." -- Robert Jordan(4/5) |
| "They can try to bind our arms, but they cannot chain our minds or hearts..." -- Stratovarius(3/5) |
| "Silence can be the biggest lie of all. We have a responsibility to speak up; and whenever the occasion calls for it, we have a responsibility to raise bloody hell." -- Herbert Block(30/4) |
| "You can cheer the bear, or you can cheer the bull. Cheer both and you will be trampled and eaten." -- Robert Jordan(29/4) |
| "Change is right around the corner, a few steps ahead of hope, a short distance from fearlessness, and just out of sight failure." -- Hamley Rooney(28/4) |
| "We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but can always be braver than we expect." -- Robert Jordan(27/4) |
| "Throughout history man has looked to the stars and heavens to find faith. It is only looking into ourselves that we may trully find it."(26/4) |
| "There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised." -- Anton Szandor LaVey(23/4) |
| "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy(22/4) |
| "The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems." -- Roger Levian(21/4) |
| "The measure of a nation is not in the ruler, but in the people."(20/4) |
| "Always be honest. There are those who will attempt to use it against you, but be so anyway."(19/4) |
| "Do what is right and natural, and you will never go wrong."(16/4) |
| "Knowing the path is not the same as walking the path." -- Morpheus - The Matrix(15/4) |
| "A lion survives by being a lion, a mouse by being a mouse." -- Robert Jordan(14/4) |
| "What can't be changed must be endured."(13/4) |
| "A lion must hunt. As well to tell the sun not to rise otherwise."(12/4) |
| "If you grab at brambles you are going to get pricked." -- Robert Jordan(9/4) |
| "If I cannot command love, I am the king of nothing." -- C. Hamlet Roney(8/4) |
| "First they ignore you, then they fight you then they ridicule you, then you win." -- Gandhi(7/4) |
| "Everyone needs their space, be sure to give it when necessary."(6/4) |
| "Fears are often ungrounded and what hold us back."(5/4) |
| "'Wish' and 'want' trip the feet, but 'is' makes the path smoother." -- Robert Jordan(2/4) |
| "The need of the many outweight the need of the one" -- Spock(1/4) |
| "Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won." -- Robert Jordan(31/3) |
| "Temporary pain can sometimes lead to a much improved life. The difficulty is knowing when the pain is necessary."(30/3) |
| "What it right and what is thought to be right are not always the same."(29/3) |
| "Love with all your heart, like you'll never get hurt. You still get hurt, but you know you did your best."(26/3) |
| "The best choice is not what is always most popular."(25/3) |
| "It's not where you're going, but how you get there."(24/3) |
| "There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... Pursue those."(23/3) |
| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on you goals."(22/3) |
| "These things do I love, old things, old places, remembered times, familiar faces."(19/3) |
| "Sometimes the most unpleasant things lead to the most plesant results."(18/3) |
| "In every living thing is the spirit to be free."(17/3) |
| "Gluttony is its own punishment."(16/3) |
| "When you come to the edge of all the light that you have And prepare to step off the edge into the darkness of the unknown You must believe one of two things: That there will be something solid for you to stand on Or you will learn how to fly."(15/3) |
| "The journey is the joy."(12/3) |
| "Reflection in moderation is good for the soul, but you must be ready to act on what you discover."(10/3) |
| "Quiet moments are life's rewards."(9/3) |
| "If your heart is full of love, you always have something to give."(8/3) |
| "Even a hawk is an eagle among crows."(5/3) |
| "Love many, trust few, paddle your own canoe."(4/3) |
| "Not all ideas that seem good are."(3/3) |
| "Words can cut deeper than any blade."(2/3) |
| "Problems are only as big as you make them."(1/3) |
| "The most incredible rumour can be very believable is surrounded around a grain of truth."(25/2) |
| "The high price we pay now may prove to be infinitely beneficial later."(24/2) |
| "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -- Gandhi (23/2) |
| "Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased." (22/2) |
| "I've never lost, I've just been a little behind when time runs out." (19/2) |
| "Never forget your friends, for they have helped you more than you can know." (18/2) |
| "The days that you question whether to get up in the mornings are the days it is most important you do." (17/2) |
| "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." (16/2) |
| "Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star." (15/2) |
| "Love understands, and therefore waits." (12/2) |
| "I always see better with my heart." (11/2) |
| "Nothing improves my hearing better than praise." (10/2) |
| "When you come to the end of your rope, make a knot and hang on." (9/2) |
| "Happiness is found along the way, not at the end of the road." (8/2) |
| "Actions speak louder than words." (5/2) |
| "There will be times you must decide which is more important, and there will be times when, faced with the decision, you cannot." (4/2) |
| "Good things do come to an end, but they do not have to." (3/2) |
| "If you want a friend, be a friend." (2/2) |
| "Life only demands from you the strength you possess." (1/2) |
| "Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming." (29/1) |
| "Friends make the most unbearable times bearable." (28/1) |
| "Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming." (27/1) |
| "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." (26/1) |
| "Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." (25/1) |
| "Following the crowd can lead nowhere." (22/1) |
| "It's nice to be liked just the way you are." (21/1) |
| "If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours." (20/1) |
| "The little things in life are the most important." (19/1) |
| "There is not a single way in which everything must be done." (18/1) |
| "Love is never wrong and so it never dies." (15/1) |
| "Love is like the moon, beautiful and ever new." (14/1) |
| "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." (13/1) |
| "The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention." (12/1) |
| "It is the frustrations is life that keep it interesting." (11/1) |
| "It is always worth trying for something again that failed the first time." (8/1) |
| "A friend is someone who will be there without asking anything of you. A friend is someone you know that knows you, and accepts you." (7/1) |
| "Just when things seem most difficult is when it is the most important to keep going." (6/1) |
| "Friends never drift so far away that they are no longer friends." (5/1) |
| "Who strives not when he should strive, who, though young and strong, who is loose in his purpose and thoughts, and who is lazy-- that idler never finds the way to wisdom." (4/1) |
| "To the center of the world you have taken me, Spirit, and showed me the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, the only mother-- and there the spirit shapes of things, as they should be, you have shown me and I have seen." (1/1) |
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