All quotes are attributed as best I know. If you notice a mis-attribution, please e-mail me the correction with the source of your information.
Some quotes here are attributed to fictional characters -- on purpose.
Longer thoughts and quotes are linked to instead of listed here.
Of course you are out of book space. Everyone is always out of book space.
If you're not out of book space, you probably are not worth knowing.
- Unknown
Bad Times & Courage
The most beautiful people we have know are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the
depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life
that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful
people do not just happen
- Elizabeth kubler-Ross
Transitions
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
psychiatrist and author
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
- James Bryant Conant
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. IT GOES ON.
- Robert Frost
And the day came when to remain tight in a bud became more painful than the
risk it took to blossom
- Anais Nin
Nothing is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Madame Curie
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement
that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
I just see my life as a series of really interesting mistakes.
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
- Unknown
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
- B.C. Forbes
I have often regretted my silence, never my speech!
- Monique Arnold
There are few people in this country who are as out as I am. I
have a husband, and I have a woman companion. There is an obsession
with trying to define women by their sexuality. People don't know
how to deal with you if they can't define your sexuality. I'm just
perverse enough to like that.
- Patricia Ireland, president of NOW, 1993
The Pledge of Allegiance says, ' . . . with liberty and justice for
all.' What part of 'all' don't you understand?
- Rep. Pat Schroeder
Home & Friends
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
- Helen Rowland
When you say good-bye to a friend, assume that one of you will die
before you ever get to see each other again. If you want to leave
something unsaid, fine -- but be prepared to leave it unsaid forever.
- Slovotsky's Twenty-Seventh Law, from
Joel Rosenberg's
Guardians of the
Flame series
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
When we begin life, we are all given a puzzle--each one very different, yet special. As we continue
through our lives, we meet people and have some type of affect upon their life, as they do on ours. We
share with them a piece of our puzzle and they share a piece of theirs, with us, in return. No matter what
type of impact they had upon our life, we still carry along with us, a piece of their puzzle. Meaning that
everyone we encounter has a special impact upon our lives, because they have shaped us into what we
are today. This is called the puzzle of life. Each puzzle growing and changing throughout our lives, but
always becoming better and always having the same foundational pieces. Know that you DO make a
difference in peoples lives! I thank you for sharing part of your puzzle with me!
- Erin Bridget Doyle Animal Science/Pre-vet Med.
Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives.
There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize
your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere
relationships. Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention.
Which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which
ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which
ones are going downhill? When you leave certain people do
you feel better or feel worse? Which ones always have drama or don't
really understand, know, or appreciate you?
The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth
around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit
in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
Just when you've decided that guy you can't have is one in a million,
remember, that means there are thirteen just like him in Los Angeles County
alone.
- Angela Jones.
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
- Unknown
Life
The point of life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, with
a well preserved body, but to rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Holy sh*t, what a ride!"
