I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.
They don't teach you how to love somebody.
They don't teach you how to be famous.
They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor.
They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer.
They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind.
They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying.
They don't teach you anything worth knowing."

― Neil Gaiman

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

-- Voltaire

There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.

"There is a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot."

-- President John F. Kennedy (7 days before his assassination)

This life is what you make it.

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babe, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

-- Marilyn Monroe

The only difference between friends & enemies is you know who your enemies are.

"The only difference between friends & enemies is you know who your enemies are."
-- Unknown

Life — and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison — is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

"Life — and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison — is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
-- Neil Gaiman

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

"If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut."
-- Albert Einstein

We all die. The goal is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

"We all die. The goal is not to live forever, it is to create something that will."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do

"If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don`t show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."

-- Henry Rollins

Fucking is the last resort for a man who feels impotent.

"Fucking is the last resort for a man who feels impotent."

-- movie quote: "The Man From Elysian Fields"

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

"You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time."

-- Albert Einstein

..wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them...

"When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it happen once is bad enough… but to have it repeated? Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that?"

-- Acheron Parthenopaeus

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-- Buddha

I have a wonderful life now and no matter what you do, you will never affect me again.

"I don't have very much to say to you. I know exactly what you did. I know that you know that what you did was wrong. You did it with full knowledge -- I have a wonderful life now and no matter what you do, you will never affect me again."

-- Elizabeth Smart

there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me

“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”


-- Charles R. Swindoll

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the conseq

“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”

-- Unknown

Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured."

-- Earl Nightingale (1921 – 1989) American motivational speaker and author, known as the "Dean of Personal Development."

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer.

a great tragedy is when we choose to do NOTHING. Please...do SOMETHING.

"The reality is we cannot do EVERYTHING. But a great tragedy is when we choose to do NOTHING. Please...do SOMETHING."

-- Eugene Cho, founder of One Day's Wages

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.

"A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love."

-- Marysarah Quinn

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

-- Jim Rohn

The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
- P.G. Wodehouse

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

-- Mark Twain

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep.

"Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence."

-- Anthony de Mello

"A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who...

"A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on
the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of
continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves
in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention."

-- Aldous Huxley (1894 –1963) ,English writer.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed - borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed - borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves."

-- Osho
 

    --> WHO ARE YOU? WHO ARE THEY? Is there such a thing as "they"?

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got..

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
-- Janis Joplin

Trying is having the intention to fail.

"Trying is having the intention to fail." -- From the movie "I Love You Man"

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people.

"It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nike nailed it with JUST DO IT....it only took me years to really grasp that concept..

"Nike nailed it with JUST DO IT....it only took me years to really grasp that concept.."

-- Derek Smout

Every motion, being motion under resistance, must sooner or later come to an end...

"Every motion, being motion under resistance, must sooner or later come to an end; every rhythmic oscillation (unless externally reinforced) suffers some loss of rate and amplitude. The planets ride through a lesser orbit, or will ride, than once they rode; the sun will shine less warmly and brightly as the centuries pass away; the friction of the tides will retard the rotation of the earth. This globe, that throbs and murmurs with a million motions, and luxuriates into a million forms of riotously breeding life, will some day move more leisurely in its orbit and its parts; the blood will run cooler and more slowly in our desiccated veins; we shall not hurry any more; like dying races, we shall think of heaven in terms of rest and not of life; we shall dream of Nirvana. Gradually, and then rapidly, equilibration will become dissolution, the unhappy epilogue of evolution. Societies will disintegrate, masses will migrate, cities will fade into the dark hinterland of peasant life; no government will be strong enough to hold the loosened parts together; social order will cease to be even remembered. And in the individual too, integration will give way to disruption; and that coordination which is life will pass into that diffuse disorder which is death. The earth will be a chaotic theatre of decay, a gloomy drama of energy in irreversible degradation; and it will itself be resolved into the dust and nebula from which it came. The cycle of evolution and dissolution will be complete. The cycle will begin again, and endless times again; but always this will be the denouement. Memento mori is written upon the face of life; and every birth is a prelude to decay and death."

-- Will Durant on Herbert Spencer's "Equilibration"

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

-- Napoleon Hill (1883 – 1970) American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
-- Gandhi

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."

-- Marianne Williamson

Our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in TX

"The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment toward us."

-– Ron Paul

Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room...

"Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room... So if you see darkness in your life be reassured that a beautiful picture is being prepared."

-- Unknown

You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your s

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love."

-- Neil Gaiman, as the character "Rose Walker" in The Sandman #65

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

"Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
-- Henry Rollins

Do you ever feel that life is like a choose-your-own-adventure book?

"Do you ever feel that life is like a choose-your-own-adventure book? Every choice changes the story, opening up some possibilities, and closing off others. Except in real life if you make a bad choice you can't go back and try again, you are stuck with your first decision."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life.

"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl."
-- Stephan Hoeller

The current surge in gold prices – which reflects our dollar's devaluation – is warning us....

"The current surge in gold prices – which reflects our dollar's devaluation – is warning us to pay closer attention to our fiscal, monetary, entitlement, and foreign policy."
– Ron Paul

Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."
~ Eckhart Tolle

you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
~ Zig Ziglar

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn.

"With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up."

-- Charlotte Joko Beck

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.

"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse."
-- Anonymous

If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe that’s because you’re ...not taking good care of your grass.

"If the grass is greener on the other side, maybe that’s because you’re ...not taking good care of your grass."

♥ Carl Ven ♥

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options:

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally." -Eckhart Tolle

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack...

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
-- Senator Barack Obama, 2007

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"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
-- Sen. Barack Obama, 12/20/2007.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
~ Henry Winkler

Being an ugly woman is like being a man...you're gonna have to work.

"Being an ugly woman is like being a man...you're gonna have to work."
~ Daniel Tosh

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

- Mark Twain

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

"Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible."

~ Brian Tracy, self-help author.

I am grateful for all of my problems.

"I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."

~J.C. Penney, businessman

This seems to be the central dilemma of human life--that it is easier to desire what is over there than to appreciate what is right here.

"This seems to be the central dilemma of human life--that it is easier to desire what is over there than to appreciate what is right here.

Your spirit or your soul--your original unconditioned consciousness--exists only in you, so going elsewhere can never give you access to your essential nature, to who you really are."

- Byron Brown

You are here to be you.

"You are here to be you. And you are an expression of it all. Can you notice that in everything you see?"

- Matt Kahn

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

Charles R. Swindoll