"ALGERNON: Well, what shall we do?"You shall no longer take things at second or third hand,
nor look through the eyes of the dead,
nor feed on the specters of books.
You shall not look through my eyes either,
nor take things from me,
you shall listen to all sides
and filter them for yourself."-Simon Wilder, With Honors
JACK: Nothing!
ALGERNON: It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't
mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind."
"The Importance of Being Earnest"Treat the patient, not the disease.
-paraphrased from the motion picture Patch Adams"Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals;"Has anything you've done made your life better?"
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart,
The beauty that forms in your mind,
The loveliness that drapes
Your purest thoughts,
If you remain true to them,
Your world will at last be built."
-James Allen
"ALGERNON: The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and
modern literature a complete impossibility!"
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
"Hate is baggage... It's just not worth it."
-American History X
"The world is too small for one
person to have such big problems."
-Nicole Llido"What I need is a you." "Choose between yesterday and tomorrow."
-Dawson, Dawson's Creek -Message In a Bottle"Desire must go two ways or it is worthless."
-The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley"The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful."
-I don't remember!"And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.""Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird
That cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
-Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper
the wisdom of the Star Wars universe
-quoted from Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn
"Confession, apology, and forgiveness... were the tools friends used to break walls down into bridges."
"For a moment she sat there in the silence, gazing at his sleeping face, a tangle of emotions twisting through the darkness of her private agony. Ten years now they'd known each other, years that could have been filled with camaraderie and friendship. Years [he] had effectively wasted with his own lonely and arrogantly stupid wanderings through completely unnecessary pain and doubt."
"...without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit."
"...she was right. He could hate it, he could bitterly oppose it; but down deep, he knew she was right. The universe wasn't his responsibility. Decisions made by other people- their actions, their consequences, even their sacrifices- they weren't his responsibility, either."