- Diane Ravitch
"Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right."
- Donna Hanover
"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too."
- Herbert Samuels
"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do."
- John Holt
"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."
- Voltaire
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
- Abraham Maslow
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore
"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."
- Anon.
"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not."
- Giacomo Leopardi
"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
- Grace M. Hopper
"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen."
- Marge Piercy
"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."
- Scottish proverb
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
- Katherine Mansfield
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
- Sophia Loren
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases."
- C. G. Jung
"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve."
- Nancy Hale
"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
- Thomas Fuller
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."
- Mario Cuomo
"Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do."
- Quintus Ennius
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
- Sally Kempton
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
- Gertrude Stein
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."
- Ethel Watts Mumford
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Dare to be naive."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
- Washington Irving
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- Saint Francis of Assisi
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
- Bishop W. C. Magee
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."
- Mildred W. Struven
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
- Carl Rogers
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone else has got to say."
- Elizabeth C. Gaskell
"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue."
- Alice Duer Miller
"One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar."
- Helen Keller
"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love."
- Mariah Burton Nelson
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth."
- Ed Howe
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."
- Beverly Sills
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
- Katharine Graham
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story."
- Mary McCarthy
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
- Carrie Snow
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
- Margaret Bonnano
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
- Jacqueline Bisset
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work."
- Sister Mary Lauretta
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
- Beverly Sills
"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."
- Norman Ford
"When you're through changing, you're through."
- Bruce Barton
"The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others."
- Jean de La Bruyere
"Don't curse the darkness - light a candle."
- Chinese proverb
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
- Vince Lombardi
"People who never get carried away should be."
- Malcolm Forbes
"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do."
- John Holt
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
- Lady Bird Johnson
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
- Christopher Morley
"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so."
- Thomas Carlyle
"No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one."
- Elbert Hubbard
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
- Colette
"Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause."
- Phillip Gribble
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
- Erma Bombeck
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby
"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."
- Joseph Joubert
"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."
- Ellen Glascow
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein
"When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong."
- Kin Hubbard
"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Words are seductive and dangerous material to be used with caution."
- Barbara Tuchman
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."
- Ivy Baker Priest
"You manage things; you lead people."
- Grace Murray Hopper
"Success has made failures of many men."
- Cindy Adams
"Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination."
- Marcel Proust
"God gives no linen, but flax to spin."
- German Proverb
"Dogs come when you call; cats take a message and get back to you."
"Philosophical question: If you call a cat by it's name, did you actually make a sound?"
- Sally Forth
"Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different...by dressing exactly alike."
"When people run around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it, we say they are orbiting."
"I don't have an attitude; I'm supposed to be like that."
"One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people."
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
"I'm grounded for two weeks or until my dad learns that 'funk' is not a bad word."
- Randy Glasbergen.
"Life is a never-ending cycle of needing one."
- Hime-chan
"When I meet my soul mate, I'm gonna smack him for being late!"
- Hime-chan (again!)
"Smile! It confuses people!"
"Use your imagination - You would not be able to handle mine."
"Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly."
- Mary Schmich
"I am always ready to learn; but I do not always like being taught."
- Winston Churchill
"Anger is only one letter short of danger."
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift - that's why we call it the present."
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think of you."
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Chances are that you will laugh at this later, so you might as well laugh now."
-Tori Amberidge
"S-h-m-i-l-y: See How Much I Love You."
"You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."
"Love is not what we become, but what we already are."
- Stephen Levine
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
"Never put a heart around the name of whom you love, put a circle because hearts get broken and circles never end."
"We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do little things with great love."
-Mother Teresa
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it."
- C. C. Scott
"When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
- Cherokee Expression
"If every time I thought of Him I put a rock in my pocket, I'd have Him in my heart and the world in my pocket."
"No man is worth your tears - and the one who is won't make you cry."
"Always remember there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am,' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are'."
- Frederick L. Collins
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't cry because it's over..Smile because it happened."
"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
"I always knew I'd look back on the days I cried and laugh, but I never thought I'd look back on the days I laughed and cry."
"How lucky I am to have known someone it is hard to say goodbye to."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you dont stop and look around once in a while you could miss it."
- Ferris Bueller
"I have not failed. I have successfully discovered twelve thousand ideas that dont work."
- Thomas Edison
Friends
- Winnie the Pooh
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus.
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
- Stone Temple Pilots
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
Lyrics
conversing with the stars to fathom why
they're not afraid to burn
to loose themselves while turning into light."
- If We Were Lovers, Allstar United
"God is there and He is watching.."
- Supernatural, dc Talk
"Six days the universe was made
from the dead a man was raised
they say he walked across the waves
and I'll believe it to my grave...."
- Supernatural, dc Talk
"It seems to easy to call You Savior, but not close enough to call You God..."
- Love Song for a Savior, Jars of Clay
"In your weakness He is stronger; In your darkness He shines through; When you're cryin He's your comfort; When you're all alone, He's carryin you!"
- Get Down, Audio Adrenaline
"This is valley is so deep I can barely see the sun; I cry out for mercy, Lord.. You lift me up again!"
- Get Down, Audio Adrenaline
"The word love, well it was once overused. Back in the 70's the word was abused; But I refuse to let love be diluted. We can't allow physical lust to intrude it - or polute it cause there ain't no excuse - for the greatest gift of all to be abused. So choose to loose the pride that may tug at you. Don't be afraid of the words I Love You."
- Say the Words, dc Talk
Tidbits I've learned from life...
and my peers and coworkers..
There's no telling where most of these came from...Please don't take any of it to heart.
- Queen Sandy's BB
"Well, this day was a total waste of makeup."
"This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting."
"Therapy is expensive, poppin' bubble wrap is cheap! You choose."
"If I throw a stick, will you leave?"
"Don't annoy the crazy person!"
"From a mind so twisted, it was actually sprained!"
"I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing."
"A pedestrian hit me and went under my car."
"I didn't cheat, I just changed the Rules!"
"Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark."
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."
"Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies."
"Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view."
"The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist."
"I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce."
"I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care."
"I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid."
"What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?"
"I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant."
"I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me."
"You sound reasonable ? Time to up my medication."
"I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter."
"I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message."
"I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public."
"Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject."
Stupid Questions
"If a person with multiple personalities tries to kill himself, is it a hostage situation?"
"If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?"
"If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking, and there is no woman around to hear him.... is he still wrong?"
"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"
"Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?"
"When you smile...the world really gets much, much sweeter than the sweetest candies..."
- Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon SuperS (the movie)
"I told you, I HATE girls! They don't play fair!"
- Tasuki, Fushigi Yugi
"The battle between friends has begun."
- Nakago, Fushigi Yugi
"What was that?! It sounded like a homo being strangled!"
"Well EXCUSE ME for being gay!!"
- Amiboshi and Nuriko, Fushigi Yugi
"Mitsukake, your cat's floating in midair!"
- Hotohori-sama, Fushigi Yugi
"I'm kinda jealous...because even in the future, my mom can only make me burnt cookies."
- Chibiusa (aka the baka pink haired rat), BSSM SuperS Movie
"Are you two flirting? Oh, God, COULD my life get any worse?!"
- Roswell
"I'm bummed cuz a gay guy that doesn't exist is going to die next month!"
- Sar (Hey Hime-chan!)
