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"The willow knows what the storm does not: The power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it." --unknown
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes" --Maggie Kuhn
"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
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
"What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul." --Joseph Roux
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither" --Benjamin Franklin
"The hardest thing in this world... is to live in it." --Joss Whedon
"I have fled the evil, I have found a better way." --Baptai chant to the Thracian goddess Kotys
"Without our knowledge or consent, childhood slips away in the night, and our innocence escapes us. And we wake up one morning to find we have become who we are." -William Krudski, Young Americans, ep 1x07 "Free Will"
"Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps a singing bird will come" - Chinese proverb
"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that'." --Douglas Adams
"All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
"Curiosity has its own reason for existence. The important thing is not to stop questioning." --Albert Einstein
"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." --Winston Churchill
"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." --Lamartine
"I... I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape." --Estella : 'Great Expectations'
"I choose my company by the beating of their hearts, not the swelling of their heads." --Saves The Day
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." --Goethe
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." --Chuck Palahniuk
"That which yields is not always weak." --Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey
"The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap." --Albert Einstein
"I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you." --Stephen King
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." --Kurt Vonnegut
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein
"Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught." --Erno Paasilinna
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." - Gilbert K. Chesterson
"A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself." --The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende; Chapter U
"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows." --Cell, by Stephen King; Chapter 7, part Kent Pond
"Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago." -Dr Allison Cameron, House, ep 1x03 "Occam's Razor"
"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us." --Helen Keller
"The depth of friendship- how much it means to us... depends, at least in some part, upon who many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates." --Lillian Rubin
"in the world of walls
you were like a door"
--Ryan Malcolm
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise." --Victor Hugo
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." --Ernest Hemingway
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. --Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -- Albert Einstein
"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck." --Joss Whedon
"...That special kind of stealth batshit crazy that doesn't reveal itself until after the relationship has started." --envoy
"That was the last nail in the coffin of my good mood. Now I'm running on bitterness and caffeine." --Vebelfetzer
"What business is it of yours if I love you?" --Goethe
"I think that sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it, because if we actually felt how much we really love them, it would kill us." --Fay Forrester : Riding In Cars With Boys
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." --Elvis Costello
"Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again... skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts." --unknown
"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go." --unknown
"Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought." --Graham Greene
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." --Oscar Wilde
"Religions die when they are proved true. Science is the record of dead religions." --Oscar Wilde
"The universe is not only queerer than we imagine it is queerer than we can imagine." --J.B.S. Haldane
"There are two types of male oysters, and one of them can change genders at will. And before man crawled out of the muck, maybe he had the same option. Maybe originally we were supposed to be able to switch genders, and being born with just one sex... is a mutation." -Grissom, CSI, ep 5x08 "Ch-Ch-Changes"
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." --Steve Biko
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." --John Lennon
"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other." --Luciano de Crescenzo
"Let me know the madness that makes you you...." --Scott Leonard
"Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized. Do you follow that? In other words, this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact, it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos..." --William Gaddis
To survive,
Know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.
--Octavia Butler
"I must not give in to the fear. Fear is the mind killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me. Only I will remain." --the Dune series, by Frank Herbert
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
--Hughes Mearns
"At a certain age, the stupid start screaming for censorship, probably as a last-ditch effort to impress God before they die." --seanbaby.com
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy." --Dante
"One's worth is exponentially increased with one's incremental disappearance." --Marya Hornbacher-Beard
"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases." --Francoise Sagan
"You know what my number one fantasy used to be? I used to think about one day... just not telling anyone and going off to some random place. And I'd disappear... and they'd never see me again..." --Enid : 'Ghost World'
"I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones." --John Cage
"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do? I swear, for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look, but don't touch. Touch... But don't taste. Taste. Don't swallow! And while you're jumping from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughing His sick, fucking ass off. He's a tight-ass. He's a sadist. He's an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never." --John Milton (character) : 'The Devil's Advocate'
"When I was nine months old, I was dropped on my head - since then I've seen the world upside down." --Randy Guss
"When angry, count four; when really angry, swear." --Mark Twain
"I have love in me, the likes of which you could scarcely imagine." --The Creature : 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'
"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards." --Lois McMaster Bujold
"Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again." --Robert A. Heinlein
"Life is not a movie. Good guys lose. Everybody lies. And love does not conquer all." --Buddy Ackerman : 'Swimming with Sharks'
"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts...because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." --Robert Heinlein : 'Stranger in a Strange Land'
"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance." --William Gaddis
"We women are the ones who transform everything we touch. And nothing on earth is higher than that." --Roseanne (tv show)
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." --Edgar Allan Poe
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." --Thomas Edward Lawrence
"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light." --Franz Kafka
"I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you." --Nietzsche
"Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever." --Lilly Nomad
"Don't underestimate the mentally ill." -- Joon : 'Benny and Joon'
"i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens
only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses"
--e.e. cummings
"If some kid watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then blows the high school up, then goddamnit... start parenting better." --Nicholas Brendon
"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." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"For me, magic and reality aren't necessarily separate things, and they shouldn't be." --Sting, at the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone premiere
"We come into this world defenseless. Which is why god gave us baseball bats." --Christopher Titus
"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is never half full, it's always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. --Janeane Garofalo
"Don't mistake kindness for weakness." --Gabriel Shear : 'Swordfish'
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." --Rebecca West
"And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy god my god; Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me." --Book of Ruth 1:16-17 (Spoken by Ruth, to Naomi.)
"Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end." --Don Juan : 'Don Juan DeMarco'
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that is a new world is born." --Anais Nin
"Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, "Woo the muse of the odd."... You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don't hope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it... Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish." --Bruce Sterling
Sleep is for the weak
Caffeine is my sacrament
Are those spiders real?
--geek haiku
"I've been told some of what I do is so good it transcends the genre, but I don't believe in transcending the genre. I believe in the genre! My stepfather keeps asking me when I'm going to do something without vampires or spaceships or aliens or whatever, and I'm proud to say never!" --Joss Whedon
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." -Angel, Angel the Series, ep 5x22 "Not Fade Away"
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
--Dylan Thomas
"Any old soul is worth saving, at least to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying--so you can take the offer as a compliment." --William Burroughs
"The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell." --H.L. Mencken
"For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!" --Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." --Philip K. Dick
The things you tried to kill, I found a way to grow.
You may have made your mark, but I’m still here today knowing who you are.
--Le Tigre, ''Tell You Now"
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are very tiny compared to what lies within us" --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Then, what is sacrilege? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrilege: and if it's blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacrilegious work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform." --William Gaddis
"However vast the darkness,
we must supply our own light."
--Stanley Kubrick
"Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon... and a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight." --Carly Simon
"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." --Tennessee Williams
"You see, insanity is never that far away. It's as close as saying 'yes' to the wrong impulse. The people who stay sane are those people who make those quick decisions.
Should I stick my fingers into the fan....or leave the room right now?
Should I run the razor blade over my tongue....or just keep shaving?!
You see...most of us have that little voice inside our head that says, 'Nonono... turning the car into incoming traffic is counterproductive!'" --Jim Carrey
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." --John Lennon
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgement enough for me..." --Charles William Stubbs
"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that when ever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." --Maya Angelou
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." --Winston Churchill
"Age and wisdom don't necessarily go together. Some people just become stupid with more authority." --Terry Pratchett
"You've got to be crazy. It's too late to be sane." --Robin Williams
"There's a bit of magic in everything and then some loss to even things out." --Lou Reed
"He's not entirely stable, in the same way that the sahara desert is not entirely wet." --unknown
"If there were no beauty in the observer then he would not find beauty outside. The mere fact that beauty is seen proves that there is beauty already present in the state of being the observer" --Shantanand Saraswati
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." --Camille Pissarro
"The path to one's own heaven always leads through the voluptuousness of one's own hell." --Nietzsche
"If a man hasn't found anything to die for, he hasn't found anything to live for." --James Bevel
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place, where it lives." --Emily Jong
The soul selects her own
Society-
Then- shuts the door
--Emily Dickenson
"True faith is to follow the tiniest light in the deepest of dark, trusting that it will guide you to safety." --Daini
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." --Leo Buscaglia
"There ain't enough room in this world for perfections like you and monsters like me..." --Matthew Good
"You see I used to think that I'd get over everything. But everything just got over me." --unknown
"Some days I thought I was becoming a sociopath. Some days I thought I was already there." --Anita Blake
"When you're going through hell, keep going." --Winston Churchill
Pain- has an Element of Blank-
It cannot recollect
When it begun- or if there were
A time when it was not
--Emily Dickenson
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves." --Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." --Earl Wilson
"Nobody's held me down and forced me to cry, or made me hug them, or got to the inside of me. It's like I say, 'Oh, I'm fine,' and I walk away. Nobody's ever said to me, 'no you're not...'." --Angelina Jolie
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." --James Branch Cabell
"My teen angst bullshit now has a bodycount." --Winona Ryder : 'Heathers'
"While the rest of the human race are descended from monkeys, redheads derive from cats." --Robert Heinlein
"Dream like you'll live forever.
Live like you'll die tomorrow.
Dance like nobody's watching.
And love like you'll never get hurt."
--James Dean
"For all those men who believe that there's no reason to buy the cow when you can get the milk for free, nowadays 80% of women are against marriage, as they have wised up to the fact that for 8 oz. of sausage it's not worth buying the entire pig!" --unknown
"Those who dance are thought insane by those who cannot hear the music." --Nietzsche
"It's a metallic taste, human blood. Copperish. If you cut it with peppermint schnapps, that goes away quickly." --Richard B. Riddick : 'Pitch Black'
"If a thorn pricks your foot, it hurts me like a spear entering my heart. I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Whenever you are in distress, just say to yourself, 'I have a mother.'" --Sri Sarada Devi
"I've learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace being there, thanks is a feeble word, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heroes often go unsung... people seldom say I love you and then it's either too late or the moment goes, so when I tell you I love you it doesn't mean I know you'll never go, only that I wish you didn't have to." --unknown
"Once I swore I would die for you, but I never meant like this" --Stabbing Westward
"Once there was a wise man who dreamt he was a butterfly, but when he awoke he had a strange realization. He didn't know if he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was a man..."
good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
the hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
lust is being in love with a person's outside. love is lusting after their soul.
some people make the world special just by being in it.
what do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
"Try to follow your heart, and you'll lose your mind. Try to use your mind, and you'll break your heart. This is the nature of love."
"a true sadist attacks neither mind nor body, they aim straight for the heart."
"We don't use Microsoft products. We have work to do."
--overheard from several Microsoft employees