Favorite Quotes

"children love to be alone, because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream"
roger rosenblatt

"i don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains"
~anne frank

"you may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept."
khalil gibran

being powerful is like being a lady. if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- margaret thatcher

"anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain." - unknown

in the end, everything will be ok. if it's not, then it's not the end.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles across the stars . . .

"there are no short cuts
to anyplace worth going."
~~ beverly sills ~~

"hating a person is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat."
harry emerson fosdick

it is better to ask some questions than to know all the answers.
- james thurber

"life is either a great adventure or nothing."
helen keller

"happiness isn't doing what you like, it's liking what you do."
unknown

“a true friend is someone who’s there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
––len wein

“letting go doesn’t mean giving up,
it means accepting that some things can’t be.”
~~ unknown ~~

sometimes we want to fold up our dreams and put them away. then, from somewhere inside, there comes a song of courage and we know we can never give up. – unknown

try a thing you haven’t done three times.
once, to get over the fear of doing it.
twice, to learn how to do it.
and a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
- virgil thomson, advice given at age 93</ span>

actually, my goal is to have a sandwich named after me.

“it is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” from the left hand of darkness by ursula k. leguin.

we procrastinate because we know that good things come to those who wait! class of 2002

if you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.- unknown

maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you’re not gonna stop me from having fun.- ani difranco

“there are only two lasting bequeaths
we can hope to give our children...
one of these is roots,
the other is wings.”
~~ william hodding carter ~~

don’t walk in front of me
i may not follow
don’t walk behind me
i may not lead
walk beside me
and just be my friend
camus

“it’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t
been anywhere.”
-- anonymous

it is better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven’t done.

work like you don’t need the money. love like you’ve never been hurt. dance like nobody’s watching.

“do,or do not.there is not ‘try’ “
-yoda (‘the empire strikes back’)</ p>

something happens to me when i witness someone’s courage. they may not know i’m watching and i might not let them know. but something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. to fill me when i’m empty, and rock me when i’m low.
~ holly near

never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

success is in the way you walk
the paths of life each day;
it’s in the little things you do,
and in the things you say.
success is not in getting rich,
nor rising high to fame.
it’s not alone in winning goals
that all people hope to claim.
success is being big of heart,
and clean and broad in mind,
it’s being faithful to your friends,
and to the stranger, kind.
it’s in the child whom you love
and all they learn from you,
success depends on character,
and everything you do.

little nothings

“When I was a child, my mother said to me, `If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

-- Pablo Picasso

"The miracle isn't that I finished...The miracle is that I had the courage to start." -John Bingham

"Most people would rather be certain they are miserable, than risk being
happy."
Robert Anthony

"Save a tree. Eat a beaver."
-- Anonymous

"when you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. how do you manage unreasonable people? you dismiss them...like shadows" -david viscott.

ask not what you can do for your country. ask what's for lunch.
-- orson welles

and when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~ jerry chin ~

if it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind give it more thought.
- dennis roth

"live as if you were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever."
-- ghandi

in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
- john f. kennedy

nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
- sam ewing

love is like playing the piano; first you must learn 2 play by the rules, and then you must forget all of the rules and play by heart.

when you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.
- c.s. [clive staples] lewis

"life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." -- anonymous

"no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" aesop

forget past mistakes. forget failures. forget everything except what you're going to do now, and do it. - william durant

"give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the internet and he won't bother you for weeks."
-- anonymous

adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- william a. ward

i love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. for you and i are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
- kahlil gibran

“if you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
john atkinson

fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
- shirley maclaine

“life can be wildly tragic at times, and
i’ve had my share. but whatever happens
to you, you have to keep a slightly comic
attitude. in the final analysis, you have
got not to forget to laugh.
~~ katherine hepburn ~~

“no one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.”

dream as if you’ll live forever. live as if you’ll die today—james dean

“to see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” –wiliam blake, auguries of innocence

it takes real breeding, to make a person feel like shit with one word. –anita blake from guilty pleasures

“there should be sunshine after rain. there should be laughter after pain. these things have always been the same. so why worry now?” greatful dead

love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
r. a. dickson

“you may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
~~ beverly sills ~~

the soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears

truth often hurts but it’s the lie that leaves the scars.

unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. there are too many mediocre things in life. love shouldn’t be one of them. ~movie: dream for an insomniac

believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. –henry w. longfellow

the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –eleanor roosevelt

my class, you will learn to think for yourselves again. you will learn to savor words and language. no matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
- robin williams,
”dead poets society

sometimes i don’t know how to ask for help. i can get trapped inside my pain. some nameless thing seems to tear at my insides. i freeze, thinking that if i don’t move, it will go away. so i don’t ask, i don’t talk, and the pain grows. does my face look calm? don’t be fooled. i’m just afraid to let you see the truth. you might think i’m foolish or weak. you might reject me. so i don’t talk, and the pain remains. but i listen. and through other people god does for me what i can’t do for myself. one of the miracles i have found is that help often comes when i most need it. when i can’t bring myself to reach out for help, it sometimes comes to me. when i don’t know what to say, i am given the words i require. and when i share what is in my heart, i may be giving a voice to someone who cannot find his own. today i have god who knows my needs. as i walk, god is walking with me. –author unknown to me

life is uncertain...eat dessert first! ..... anon

"don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." unknown

laugh and the world laughs with you. snore and you sleep alone.
anthony burgess

"be happy. it's one way of being wise."
- colette

"All your life
you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say
you're not good enough or strong enough
or talented enough. They'll say you're the wrong height
or the wrong type to play this or be this
or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO,
a thousand times no until all the no's become meaningless.
All your life they will tell you no,
quite firmly and very quickly. They will tell you no.
And YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."
-- Nike ad

Art by Pablo Picasso

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