Jan 23, 2008 19:27
"You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us - the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain!"
-Kirk to McCoy, The Final Frontier
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."
-Unknown
"He who fights too long against deamons becomes a deamon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you." -Nietzsche
"Destiny is no 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
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
-Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
"Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can't be repeated."
-Suzan Wiener
"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times."
-Thomas Brackett Reed
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
-Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
-William Saroyan
"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
-G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare."
-Harriet Martineau
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-Emiliano Zapata
"Never doubt a small group of thoughful citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margret Mead
"Frendship is born at the moment when one person says to another:
'What! You too? Thought I was the only one...'"
-Clive Staple Lewis, Novelist and essayist
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
-Martin Luther King
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd."
-From the I Ching
"The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses."
-David Storey
"Any technology no matter how primitive, is magic to those that don't understand it"
-Florence Ambrose
"You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us - the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain!"
-Kirk to McCoy, The Final Frontier
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."
-Unknown
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire"
-Unknown
"Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people."
-Unknown
"The race is long.
In the end, it's only with yourself."
-Unknown
"Choose your enemies wisely
Because you friends don't come back to kill you"
-Unknown
"To do the right thing is usually never easy.
To do the easy thing is not always right.
To do the right thing is usually never popular.
To do the popular thing is not always right.
However, as for us. We will do the right thing
and not defend the popular and easy things."
-Unknown
"Like everything else in life, I know where I want to go, I'm just not too sure how to get there."
-Me
"love,... such a powerful word, no other word
in every other language, carries such impact."
-Me
"Is this all that I am?
Is there nothing more?
Is the spirit of my existance nothing then what I see before me?
Am I ment to trancend my earthly bonds to acheive something greater?
And if not, then why does every fiber of my being behave otherwise?"
-Me
"Everybody has an issue, and its all priority one.
So take a number, and get in line."
-Me
"Wrong numbers are never busy"
-Me
"Question not the words, but the thought behind them."
-Me
"One cannot look upon life and see a constant thing, it is forever in motion, with out any set shape or form. Its only definitive is change. Those that exist in it, must be ready at all times to accept and adapt to that change, For it will not be kind to those that don't..."
-Me