-- Uknown
What's money anyhow? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
--Bob Dylan
Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it.
--Winston Churchill
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
--e.e. cummings
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
--Tolstoy
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
--Kahlil Gibran
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.
--Thomas Eliot
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
--Rumi
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms;
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause.
Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt.
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.
--Lynn V. Andrews
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in, and no one can stop it. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang onto the bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.
--Jerry Seinfeld
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
-- Erica Jong
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
--Stephen Levine
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of sadness.
---Henri Nouwen
Shit happens
-- Forest Gump?
