20 December 2011
...banged up, mentally and emotionally...
"She's banged up, mentally and emotionally. Literally and metaphorically. But every day she walks outside with a smile on her face because that's who she is." -Unknown
...there's beauty in the breakdown
"So, let go, let go / Just get in / Oh, it's so amazing here / It's all right / 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown" -Frou Frou; Let Go
...another Troy for her to burn?
"Why, what could she have done being what she is? / Was there another Troy for her to burn?" -W.B. Yeats; No Second Troy
18 December 2011
In an infinite multiverse...
"In an infinite multiverse, I can only hope one of me has what it wants." -Scott Nadolski
...like the language you love.
"Find yourself strong and good like the language you love." -Tom Pathos Bill Johns
Love is the whole history...
"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's." -Madame de Stael
...woman's guess is much more accurate...
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty." -Rudyard Kipling; Plain Tales from the Hills
...so many things are possible...
"And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." -Norton Juster; The Phantom Tollbooth
...to keep one's wife happy...
"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it." -Lyndon B Johnson
Love me when I least deserve it...
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb
...dream is something that will disappear...
"A dream is something that will disappear no matter how much you wish to believe it." -Catherine (Video Game)
Answer when you are called...
"Answer when you are called. And know that the calling has never stopped, even when you have made yourself a busy signal." -Divine Winks
Here's to the crazy ones...
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. 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. But 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, are the ones who do." -Apple Computers
To use our individual...
"To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or not God exists constructs an illogical dichotomy that reduces our capacity for true compassion. It implies a pious quid pro quo that defies history, reality, ethics, and reason. It fails to acknowledge that the other half of rising—-the very half that makes rising necessary-—is having first been nailed to the cross." -Sugar; Dear Sugar
16 December 2011
What if you allowed your God...
"What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer to you? What if faith is the way it feels to lay your hand on your daughter’s sacred body? What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through your window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?" -Sugar; Dear Sugar
Woah, Mona Lisa...
"Woah, Mona Lisa, / You're guaranteed to run this town / Whoa, Mona Lisa, / I'd pay to see you frown" -Panic! at the Disco; The Ballad of Mona Lisa
And if she had the proper words...
"And if she had the proper words to say, / She would tell him / But she'd have nothing left to sell him" -Panic! at the Disco; The Ballad of Mona Lisa
I want, just once, to wear...
"I want, just once, to wear a bright red, strapless ball gown with no apologies. I want to be shocking, and vivid and wear a dress as intensely amazing as the person I so want to be. And the more I thought about it the more I realized how often we deny ourselves that red dress and all the other capricious, ridiculous, overindulgent and silly things that we desperately want but never let ourselves have because they are simply 'not sensible'." -Jenny; The Bloggess
To all you girls that think...
"To all you girls that think you're fat because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful ones, it's society who's ugly." -Marilyn Monroe
But trying to use willpower...
"But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work." -Allie; Hyperbole and a Half
I believe God raises you like...
"I believe God raises you like a parent does. Teaches you his values and things and, as you grow up, you learn from him so that when you become an adult God can step back and release you into the world (like your parents do when you move out). / Like a parent, God can trust that what he taught you over the years will be enough to help you make the right choices in life, to lead a happy life, a fulfilled life." -goddessastra
First, I would have her be...
"First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She will say to herself, 'For that kind of money, I can get my raincoat cleaned.' And she will." -Ted Kooser
12 December 2011
One of abundance's many corollaries...
"One of abundance's many corollaries is that the brighter your life, the more you attract... everything. / Moths and butterflies. / At which point you begin learning what to celebrate and what to let fly on by. / Or who." -TUT; A Note from the Universe
An angel in the book...
"An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby's birth. Then whispered as she closed the book 'too beautiful for earth.'" -Unknown
11 December 2011
I am grateful life...
"I am grateful life beat me into submission, because that’s how I learned to fight with compassion instead of fury. I’m not broken, I’m bendable, and I can survive anything. Damaged goods are the best kind there are." -Liz Roberts; Dear Sugar
Wisdom: Sometimes the only difference...
"Wisdom: Sometimes the only difference between a budding genius and a blooming idiot is where they choose to take a stand." -Demotivators
Irresponsibility: No single raindrop...
"Irresponsibility: No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood." -Demotivators
This is the only story...
"This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut; Mother Night
Once upon a time...
"Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and in the egg was a dragon and in the dragon was a story..." -Anonymous
Alright, I've been thinking...
"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" -Portal 2
06 June 2011
Vision without action...
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." -Japanese Proverb
The past cannot be changed...
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." -Mary Pickford
Make no little plans...
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die." -Daniel H. Burnham
29 May 2011
The greatest waste...
"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we can become." -Ben Herbster
They always say that time...
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." -Andy Warhol
There are no rewards or punishments...
"There are no rewards or punishments; only consequences." -Dean William Inge
One life is all we have...
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying." -Joan of Arc
What lies behind us...
"What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Lao-Tzu
Your vision will become clear...
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, only dreams; who looks inside, also awakens." -Carl Jung
How wonderful it is...
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Ann Frank
Alas, fortune does not change men...
"Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." -Stephen T. Steve
...Otherwise they fade away.
"The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them... Otherwise they fade away." -Charles de Lint; Into the Green
When Love cast me out...
"When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me." -Jacqueline Carey; Kushiel's Dart
Well something's lost...
"Well something's lost, but something's gained / In living every day." -Joni Mitchell; Both Sides Now
I'm being immature, rude...
"I'm being immature, rude, and horribly outspoken. I'm a child, an idiot, and I suck. I know. I'm not cute, or funny. I'm not trying to be smart, or brilliant, or witty. Disappointing, huh?" -Black Beyond; Cheap Dirt
...and not to yield.
"... and tho' / We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -Alfred Lord Tennyson; Ulysses
You are not wrong...
"You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; / All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allen Poe; A Dream Within a Dream
Everyone is a moon...
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -Mark Twain
We wear the mask...
"We wear the mask that grins and lies, / It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- / Why should the world be overwise, / In counting all our tears and sighs? / Nay, let them only see us, while / We wear the mask." -Paul Laurence Dunbar; We Wear the Mask
The world is beautiful...
"The world is beautiful because no one expects it to be." -Black Beyond; The World is Perfect
But if there was hope...
"But if there was hope... You had to cling to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable; it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith." -George Orwell; 1984
Freedom is the freedom...
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows." -George Orwell; 1984
It takes a minute...
"It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them." -Unknown
'Hello,' his voice was sharp...
" 'Hello,' his voice was sharp, pissed. 'It's me,' I said. 'It's two-thirty in the fucking morning,' he said. 'Who died?' 'I did.' " -Alex Witchel; Me Times Three
Who damned cares about love...
"Who damned cares about love when everyone, and even you, always think of hate?" -blooddx66
I still believe there's...
"I still believe there's only one true love / And I just realized that I'll never be yours... / But you'll always be mine." -Dragons of Rose
Saying goodbye isn't the hard part...
"Saying goodbye isn't the hard part, it's what we leave behind that's tough." -Dragons of Rose
28 May 2011
You have the choice to make...
"You have the choice to make your fantasy a reality, and your reality a fantasy." -Blazingfireyes
I may laugh with others...
"I may laugh with others and I may smile when looked upon but I practice. I'm tired of pretending." -Llamrei
If love was a choice...
"If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?" -AnkaraStark
You can die at any time...
"You can die at any time... It's living that takes true courage." -Himura Kenshin
Find the truth in the web...
"Find the truth in the web of lies... and then share it with me, for I've lost it myself." -Shavica
love didn't follow rules...
"... love didn't follow rules or adhere to time schedules or wait for the world to be free of peril. If you wanted love in your life, you had to take it or leave it. But know that if you left it, it might never come again." -Doris Mortman; Out of Nowhere
What you do speaks...
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 2011
I do not know if God exists...
"I do not know if God exists. / I do not know if I exist. / But I know that love exists." -J. Watson
Love at first sight...
"Love at first sight is rather pointless without love at second sight, and third and fourth..." -Unknown
Those who dream by the day...
"Those who dream by the day are aware of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams are more fragile...
"Dreams are more fragile and fleeting than a glass rose, so then why are we destined to dream?" -Scarlet from Ayashi no Ceres
It's better to be hated...
"It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not." -Unknown
Some of the world's greatest feats...
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." -Doug Larson
I like pressure...
"I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged." -Jewel
Nothing is so embarrassing...
"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done." -Sam Ewing
There is no shortage...
"There is no shortage of good days. It's good lives that are hard to come by." -Annie Dillard
We are what we repeatedly do...
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
If life gives you a chance...
"If life gives you a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it." -Anonymous
I've finally stopped running away...
"I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?" -Goldie Hawn
24 May 2011
Make the most of yourself...
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you realize how good...
"Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best." -Reggie Jackson
The world is round...
"The world is round and a place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." -Ivy Baker Priest
I had a dream...
"I had a dream, had a drowning dream I was in a river of pain. Only difference is this time I wasn't calling out your name..." -Natalie Imbruglia
We do not have to visit...
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." -Johann von Goethe
The fate of the many...
"The fate of the many depend on the sacrifice of the few." -The Longest Journey
you cannot love yourself...
"... you cannot love yourself without first seeing your flaws." -The Longest Journey
a single person can make...
"... a single person can make a difference, can change the world, if [they] put [their] mind to it, if [they] believe in [them]selves and the people in believe in [them.]" -The Longest Journey
It's important that you understand...
"It's important that you understand... That life, even when difficult and painful, is a gift. That love is priceless, and rare, and precious. That every good action, every good thought, counts." -The Longest Journey
I can relate moments...
"I can relate moments you have yet to see, and I can unravel possible threads. But remember, the future I see may not be the one in which you walk." -The Longest Journey
Most people are drawn along...
"Most people are drawn along by events, by fate, like a carriage after a horse. But some people know how to steer the horse, to change paths at will." -The Longest Journey
But you have not been 'chosen'...
"But you have not been 'chosen'. You choose for yourself what you are and what you will be." -The Longest Journey
There is no 'chosen one'...
"There is no 'chosen one'... There are only those who would, and those who wouldn't." -The Longest Journey
True tales have no beginning...
"True tales have no beginning or end. They do not exist only when men say 'Exist!' but instead are always there... reverberating through time in a dance, a weaving if you will. Only humans try to contain it with beginnings and ends. To put boundaries on everything simply because our own lives are bounded by birth and death. And thus, we seek to lessen the power of that which is immortal. True tales have a power of their own though." -The Rain Queen
If you have never spent...
"If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger--If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty meaningless--If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what [he] did next." -Michael Ende; NeverEnding Story
Every Night and every Morn...
"Every Night and every Morn / Some to Misery are Born. / Every Morn and every Night / Some are Born to sweet delight. / Some are Born to sweet delight, / Some are Born to Endless Night." -William Blake; Auguries of Innocence
To see a World...
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wildflower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour." -William Blake; The Auguries of Innocence
Can wisdom be put...
"Can wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or love in a golden bowl?" -William Blake; The Book of Thel
Why cannot the Ear...
"Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own destruction? / Or the glist'ning Eye to the poison of a smile?" -William Blake; The Book of Thel
Without Contraries there is no Progression...
"Without Contraries there is no Progression, Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence." -William Blake; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument
Our doubts are traitors...
"Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might gain / By fearing attempt." -Shakespeare
What I do know...
"What I do know is that we've all got our hidden currents, no matter how wide and friendly the river seems. Start casting deep enough and who knows what you'll dredge up." -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying
There's no such thing as fiction...
"There's no such thing as fiction; if you can imagine something, then it's happened." -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying
Just because something seems impossible...
"Just because something seems impossible that doesn't mean it's not real." -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying
Time's something you made up...
" 'Time's something you made up--same as property.' 'What are you saying?' 'What are you hearing?' " -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying
Because stories are like mirrors...
"Because stories are like mirrors... When they've gone dark and the glass is obscured, it's maybe for a reason. Polish them and you might not want to accept the person looking back at you as yourself. We carry these stories inside us--mirrors we can look into, or show other people." -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying
Wisdom cries in the streets...
"Wisdom cries in the streets, and no man regards it." -William Shakespeare
You must have been warned...
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only becuase we let them slip by." -James Matthew Barrie
They may forget what you said...
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner
Kind words can be short...
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Teresa
A boy told me...
"A boy told me if he rollerskated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion." -Naomi Shihab Nye; The Rider
Some are born for greatness...
"Some are born for greatness, / Some are born to fall, / Some are bound to be forgotten / Like they never lived at all." -Unknown Song
Omne ignotum pro magnifico...
"Omne ignotum pro magnifico. (What is unkown is magnified.)" -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Red-Headed League
It is a far, far better...
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." -Charles Dickons; A Tale of Two Cities
So, why do people fight anyway...
"So, why do people fight anyway? Perhaps the meaning of human existence lies within their own will to fight. People feel a sense of accomplishment through battle. And, it's also a fact, the ones actually fighting are never perceived as being tainted." -Gundam Wing
Words mean more...
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes a human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." -Maya Angela; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
If God wanted women...
"If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created." -A bumper sticker
We're our own dragons...
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." -Tom Robbins
The one thing that doesn't abide...
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -Harper Lee
The more faithfully you listen...
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside." -Dag Hammarskjold
When you steal from one author...
"When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research." -Wilson Mizner
A theory is something nobody believes...
"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it." -attributed to Albert Einstein
The world has achieved brilliance...
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." -General Omar Bradley
The most exciting phrase...
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...' " -Isaac Asimov
The whole problem with the world...
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell
We are drowning in information...
"We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge." -John Naisbilt
There is a fine line between...
"There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." -Oscar Levant
The two most abundant things...
"The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison
Whoever undertakes to set himself up...
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -Albert Einstein
23 May 2011
Only two things are infinite...
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found...
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -Albert Einstein
The greatest lesson in life...
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." -Winston Churchill
Know her mind...
"Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you have her soul." -Anonymous
Good judgement comes from experience...
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement." -Cousin Woodman
The most beautiful thing...
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." -Albert Einstein
The remarkable thing about television...
"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely." -T.S. Eliot
The first duty of a lecturer...
"The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." -Virginia Woolf
Education ... has produced a vast population...
"Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." -G.M. Trevelyan
I cannot teach anybody anything...
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -Socrates
Education is what survives...
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner
It is because modern education...
"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young." -Bertrand Russell
Colleges are places where pebbles...
"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." -Robert G. Ingersoll
It is a miracle that curiosity
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
How is it that little children...
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." -Alexandre Dumas fils
The authority of those who teach...
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." -Cicero
The best teacher is the one...
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." -Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is important that students...
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." -J. Bronowski; The Ascent of Man
Time is a great teacher...
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." -Hector Louis Berloiz
Discovery consists of looking...
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different." -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Do not fear to be eccentric...
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." -Bertrand Russell
If your daily life seems poor...
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place." -Rainer Maria Rilke
Truth often suffers more...
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers." -William Penn
If everybody is thinking alike...
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." -George S. Patton, Jr.
That test of a first-rate intelligence...
"That test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no days in life...
"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy is but the sign...
"Joy is but the sign of that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose." -Charles Du Bos
A new idea is delicate...
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." -Charles Brower
Don't worry about people...
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -Howard Aiken
Words are the core of thought...
"Words are the core of thought. Without words there is no thought." -Sorceress of Darshiva
19 May 2011
and in that moment...
"... and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem." -Diana Gabaldon; Dragonfly in Amber
Does it need a purpose...
"Does it need a purpose? ... Maybe it's just enough to know that there's something marvelous still in the world, that all the mystery hasn't been drained out of it by those who like to take a thing apart to understand it, then stand back all surprised because it doesn't work anymore." -Charles de Lint; The Little Country
some things can't be explained...
"... some things can't be explained, some shouldn't be, and some lose their heart when they are." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle
It's much easier to catch...
"It's much easier to catch a glimpse of there from here, then the other way around, though poets and bards and the like--they can see from there to here. It's part of their art." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle
And even Christianity's not the same...
"And even Christianity's not the same now, as it was back then. When it was growing, it took a bit of this, a bit of that, and made one thing out of it all until it began to split apart again--only from the inside out. Those gospels of theirs--if you look hard enough through them, you can find a passage to forbid anything you want, and another to condone the same thing." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle
Men have wonderful minds...
"Men have wonderful minds--they can imagine. They can do something wonderful that no beastie can. When some of this magic comes loose and drifts into our world, men's minds give it its shape." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle
This... is the mystery...
"This... is the mystery... We catch peeks of it, little whiffs of its scent, a breath of its air, a whisper of its sound, and it sets our hearts a-tremble." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle
But he knew now...
"But he knew now that those who questioned, those who took it all apart trying to find out what it was and what made it tick... they lost out in the end. The magic would always elude them. The mystery would only deepen. Because if it lost its secret, it just wouldn't be the mystery anymore. It would rob the experience of its potency. All you'd have left would be dry dust and the voices of men discussing what it was all about. The quiet, the music, the magic would be gone." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle
Why defy your fate...
"Why defy your fate? Is the will to live that powerful...? This is not the end. I am eternal... as long as there is life and death..." -Final Fantasy IX
I exist for one purpose...
"I exist for one purpose... to return everything back to the zero world, where there is no life and no crystal to give life. In a world of nothing, fear does not exist. This is the world that all life desires." -Final Fantasy IX
I have been wrong before...
"I have been wrong before and will be again, my dear girl. Infallibility would be a bore." -Masterharper Robinton; The White Dragon
I was reading about how countless species...
"I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Bill Watterson; Calvin and Hobbes
One day can make your life...
"One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five big days that change everything." -Beverly Donofrio
And I never can again...
"And I never can again be free / For you are in my music / And the music's all of me." -Tanya Huff; Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light
So for now, let's rest...
"So for now, let's rest and pretend we don't hear the drums of battle in the pounding of the surf." -James Clemens; Wit'ch Storm
God created persons to be loved...
"God created persons to be loved and things to be used. Whenever this order is reversed... tragedy results." -Revel Howe
We are really three persons...
"We are really three persons: the person we think we are, the person other people think we are, and the person God knows we are." -Mark Link
Death is death...
"Death is death, and the art of stealing a life is no nobler at the point of a blade than from a powder mixed in a drink." -James Clemens; Wit'ch Storm
You laugh at me...
"You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same." -Unknown
Nothing that grieves us...
"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: By the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size..." -Mark Twain
Sometimes the most beautiful things...
"Sometimes the most beautiful things in the world are the most strange or unexpected." -Leah Holland
The waking have one world...
"The waking have one world in common. Sleepers have each a private world of their own." -Unknown
Courage is not defined...
"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell, and rose again." -Unknown
Destiny is not a matter...
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan
but, be not afraid of greatness...
"... but, be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have a greatness thust upon 'em." -William Shakespeare; Twelfth Night
A single rose can be my garden...
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." -Leo Buscaglia
Love is much like a wild rose...
"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in it's defense." -Mark Overby
Whether joyful or sorrowful...
"Whether joyful or sorrowful, the heart needs a double because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided." -Ruckett
Power will intoxicate the best hearts...
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power." -Colton
Strange how much you've got to know...
"Strange how much you've got to know before you know how little you know." -Unknown
When you sell a man a book...
"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life." -Christopher Morley
My name, dear saint, is hateful...
"My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself / Because it is an enemy to thee." -William Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet
Being held a foe...
"Being held a foe, he may not have access / To breath such vows as lovers do swear, / And she as much in love, time means much less / To meet her beloved anywhere." -William Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet
Most folks are about as happy...
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abrham Lincoln
It takes as much courage...
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
18 May 2011
The true test of character is...
"The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do." -John Holt
It takes a lot of courage...
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." -Erma Bombeck
The fates lead him who will...
"The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag." -Old Roman saying
The greatest thing you'll ever learn...
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge
He looked just like...
"He looked just like a thousand stars / When they came out at night / But when I looked inside his heart / I found it locked up tight / Angels never help you / 'Cause angels always fall" -Aimee Mann; Angels Never Call
I think that if advanced beings...
"I think that if advanced beings were visiting Earth, we'd know it by their laughter." -Bill Amend; Fox Trot
Be who you are...
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
I am enough of an artist...
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein
Men never do evil so completely...
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -Blaise Pascal; Pensees
Sometimes, I think the only friends...
"Sometimes, I think the only friends worth having are animals." -Bill Watterson; Calvin Hobbes
At night, my mind...
"At night, my mind does not care / If what it thinks is here or there. / It tells me stories it invents / And makes up things that don't make sense. / I don't know why it does this stuff. / The real world seems quite weird enough." -Bill Watterson; Calvin and Hobbes
The greatest person is a person...
"The greatest person is a person who will give their life for others, and know all the while, that they are doing so." -Unknown
It wasn't because I loved him...
"It wasn't because I loved him... It was because I never got the chance to find out." -Tanya Huff; Wizard of the Grove
The troubles of the young...
"The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this--its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance." -Oliver Schriener; Story of an African Farm
Revenge, at first though sweet...
"Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils." -John Milton; Paradise Lost
People are like stained glass windows...
"People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Unknown
Reflect on your... childhood...
"Reflect on your... childhood... Your sensations... your words... your emotions... Time... it will not wait... No matter... how hard you hold on. It escapes you..." -Final Fantasy VIII
Even if I was created...
"Even if I was created to serve one purpose alone, I do not regret being born to this world." -Final Fantasy IX
How did you survive...
" 'How did you survive...?' 'I didn't have a choice, I had to live, I wanted to come home to you.' " -Final Fantasy IX
I wish we could have gone...
"I wish we could have gone on more adventures. But I guess we all have to say goodbye someday." -Final Fantasy IX
To keep doing what you set...
"To keep doing what you set your heart on... It's a very hard thing to do." -Final Fantasy IX
We were all created...
"We were all created for the wrong reason, but you alone defied our fate. We do not want to forget this. We want your memory to live on forever... to remind us that we were not created for the wrong reason--that our life has meaning." -Final Fantasy IX
Why do we meet now...
"Why do we meet now, who might have met in life? It is too late for me, witch-girl, too late for us both." -Jan Siegel; The Dragon Charmer
Do you seek to touch...
" 'Do you seek to touch my heart? ... I have no heart...' 'I will be your heart.' " -Jan Siegel; The Dragon Charmer
A word shapes an idea...
"A word shapes an idea, an idea shapes belief, and belief shapes the world." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
that silence before parting...
"... that silence before parting where everything has been left unsaid and it is too late now to say it." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
Never look back, says the legends...
"Never look back, says the legends. To look back is death." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
and she thought that...
"... and she thought that in this life and maybe in all lives she would remember that love sounded like the sea, and the beat of her heart was waves on the beach and she would hear its echo in the nucleus of every shell." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
She felt no panic...
"She felt no panic, only a singing in her blood and a moment of helpless stuggle, as she snatched in vain at a long-lost image, too precious to forget, too magical to remember." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
Heroes aren't born or made...
"Heroes aren't born or made, they make themselves. There are probably lots of heroes who never do anything heroic. It doesn't matter. Failing doesn't matter. What matters is trying again." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
Have you never dreamed...
"Have you never dreamed of riding the wind, chasing the clouds, dancing like a sunbeam on the face of the water? Would you not wish to see the past in an empty mirror--or to hear the music of the stars--to pull down the rainbow--to call up the long-lost dead? You have imagination: use it, give it vitality and force. Turn it into your weapon, a weapon more powerful and more deadly than any of the clumsy engines invented by modern Man." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children
We seek magic as a way...
"We seek magic as a way of life. We create dreams after life." -Final Fantasy IX
17 May 2011
Will there ever be an age...
"Will there ever be an age without war...? Dreams and magic have no meaning without a civilized world... The ignorant ones always strive for power, never realizing what lies beyond is despair... But maybe they will bring with them hope, and show us a new way of life... God bless the visitors from the lands of dreams and magic... and glory to the soldiers of light who will lead us to the new world." -Final Fantasy IX
Some things look real...
"Some things look real but are not. And other things may appear to be of no consequence at all but are, in fact, invaluable." -The Longest Journey
Dear Diary, note to self...
"Dear Diary, note to self; the next time anybody mentions the word 'destiny'... run like hell!" -The Longest Journey
Magic is not knowing...
"Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about what and how and where." -The Longest Journey
The funniest thing I've found...
"The funniest thing I've found about love, is that it's the only game you can lose by refusing to play." -Ally Mcbeal (TV show)
Who's soul is greater...
"Whose soul is greater than the ocean and spirit greater than the sea's embrace." -Shakespeare in Love
How must this journey end...
" 'How must this journey end?' 'As stories must when love's denied, with tears and a journey.' " -Shakespeare in Love
It bears all things...
"It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. This love, true and full." -Unknown
Inexperience can be overcome...
"Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. This war is not forgiving of fools." -Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon; The Black Gryphon
Tread softly on the deck tonight...
"Tread softly on the deck tonight, a deck once hot, now warm; pass the night in silence now, for one of us is gone." -Jeff Newell
Together now as never before...
"Together now as never before, and yet alone in thought. The silence speaks of what might have been, and other things which were not." -Jeff Newell
What is Nobility? What is Heroism...
"What is Nobility? What is Heroism? Is it the greatness of the strong? Or is it the heart to strive when hope no longer lives?" -Jennifer Diane; Unicorn Jelly
'Beware of me,' the sea says...
" 'Beware of me,' the sea says, 'but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.' " -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little drops of water...
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand. Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." -Unknown
The way I see it...
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." -Unknown
We shall never have friends...
"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault." -Unknown
Outer space is rejecting humans...
"Outer space is rejecting humans, and perhaps Earth is telling us something by pulling us back down." -Gundam Wing
Use what music you have...
"Use what music you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." -Unknown
If you do not change direction...
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." -Lao-tsu
Take your life in your hand...
"Take your life in your hand and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." -Erica Jong
The only way to discover...
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke
Let yourself be silently drawn...
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." -Rumi
Chance is the pseudonym God...
"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name." -Anatole France
I realized that a lot...
"I realized that a lot of people think the grass is greener on the other side... I used my imagination... to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be." -Whoopi Goldberg
And if you find your...
"And if you find your soulmate, it's because you have gotten to a place where you've figured out what you're soul is." -Sandra Bullock
16 May 2011
I'm never going to say...
"... I'm never going to say 'I didn't do this' or 'I regret that'. I'm going to say, 'I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all!' " -Kim Basinger
Shoot for the moon. Even...
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown
Don't be afraid your life...
"Don't be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin." -Grave Hansen
Courage is doing what you're...
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -Eddie Rickenbacker
First you jump off the...
"First you jump off the cliff and then you build your wings on the way down." -Ray Bradbury
Shinigami... I believe only in...
" 'Shinigami... I believe only in you... there is no other god...' 'Why do you say that?' '...Because I've never seen a miracle, I've only see dead bodies.' " -Gundam Wing manga
To the world you may...
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." -Unknown
The heart has its reason...
"The heart has its reason which reason cannot understand." -Blaise Pascal
I do not know why...
"I do not know why you look at me like that, she thought. You have lost a husband who did not love you. I have lost the chance to be queen of the world." -Colin Falconer
Indeed, he led me into...
"Indeed, he led me into the trap I always promised myself I would avoid. He left me knowing that I loved that faithless, conniving bastard more than he ever loved me." -Colin Falconer
History can be compared to...
"History can be compared to an endless waltz. War, peace, and revolution repeat itself like the triple time in a waltz..." -Gundam Wing
What you do with a song...
"What you do with a song, nobody else can do. You become the song." -Artie Shaw to Judy Garland
If good things lasted forever...
"If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" -Bill Watterson; Calvin and Hobbes
I ask you, which is...
"I ask you, which is worse: A lie that brings a smile? Or a truth that brings a tear?" -Unknown
What the heart keeps secret...
"What the heart keeps secret, the mind cannot begin to comprehend." -Unknown
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