“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself” -Charlie Chaplin
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." -Jorge Luis Borges
"You gotta stick together, with who you are and who you know, you gotta remember, where you've been, and where you want to go. I never did homework after school, did all the things I thought were cool, hung out every Friday night, I still do and I'm alright!" -MxPx
"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth." -Mark Twain
"The only difference between writers and aspiring writers is that writers write." -Martin J. Smith
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
-Gore Vidal
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal
"And that's my comfort, that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was REAL, and not merely a dream?" - Craig Thompson, Blankets
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” -Walt Disney
"But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted." -Sandman / Neil Gaiman
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." - Sydney Greenberg
"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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." -T. E. Lawrence
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." -Anon
"... Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” -Gautama Siddharta
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Ghandi
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" -Ghandi
"Beloved, do not look for revenge but leave room for the wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head." Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good."
- Romans 12:19
"Lois, a reporter lives by three rules: Believe none of what you hear. Half of what you see. And everything you write." -For All Seasons
"I can't bear the thought of losing, I dread the attention winning brings, and ever since the day I came here, I could stand without your strings, I'm so sick of all these people, but I'm scared to be alone, and if this life has taught me anything, I've forgotten it long ago..." -Rise Against
"Simply because you can breathe, doesn't mean you're alive, or that you really lived" -Rise Against
"A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that." -Kingdom of Heaven
"The hardest part isn't finding who we need to be, it's being content with who you are." -The Ataris
"I make through un-chartered waters. Before we lose our way again, will you be my compass, until forever, until forever ends." -Rise Against
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty." -Thomas Jefferson
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." -Adolf Hitler
"But I have long thought that those who aspire to sainthood in themselves or others have not felt much temptation to be human" -Brothel Boy
"We go on, multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties..." -Anna C. Brackett 1892
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." -C.S. Lewis
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." - Francois Fenelon
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill, 1863
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate when they're right. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -Marilyn Monroe
"I've known a few people who had dreams. One thing they all had in common was they got laughed at, and they didn't care." -House
"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
"A friend is someone I can be sincere with, someone I can think out loud to." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now you may get the 8 pack, you may get the 16 pack but it's all in what you do with the crayons - the colors - that you're given. Don't worry about coloring within the lines or coloring outside the lines - I say color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color all over the page; don't box me in!" -Waking Life
"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." -Corinthians 13:4
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, saves those whose spirit is crushed." -Psalm 34:19
"[It's not for us to decide what has happened to us, it is for us to decide what to do with what has happened to us.]" - Heavily Paraphrased J.R.R. Tolkein (Gandalf)
"We've all been sorry, we've all been hurt. But how we survive is what makes us who we are." -Rise Against
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” -Mark Twain
“In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.” -Mark Twain
"Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody does it." -Sangvian Intravichai
"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow... And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen." Winston Churchill
"I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein
