Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~ Kahlil Gibran #quote

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ Soren Kierkegaard #quote

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. ~ Jean Paul #quote

With few words, one can speak the truth. ~ Bryan Adams, Native Son #lyrics

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. ~ E.M. Forster #quote

You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally. ~ Eminem, Get Back #Lyrics

One that does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

Trust me not at all, or all in all. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson #quote

Lose your dreams and you will loose your mind. Ain't life unkind?  ~ The Rolling Stones, Ruby Tuesday #lyrics

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ~ Jonathan Swift #quote

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ~ Oscar Levant #quote

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows? ~ Ernest Hemingway #quote

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Charlie McCarthy #quote

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. ~ William Wordsworth #quote

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. ~ Sigmund Freud #quote

Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

The mantra becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. ~ Mahatma Gandhi #quote

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer. ~ Robert A. Heinlein #quote

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

They say music can alter moods and talk to you, well can it load a gun up for you, and cock it too? - Eminem, Sing For The Moment #Lyrics

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~ Maureen Murphy #quote

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ~ Henry David Thoreau #quote

Power is not a means; it is an end. ~ George Orwell #quote, 1984

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi #quote

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person. ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller #quote


Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.  ~ Paul Simon, Boy In The Bubble #lyrics

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. ~ George Orwell #quote

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.  ~ Todd Rundgren, Heavy Metal Kids #lyrics

Live hand in hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream. ~ The Moody Blues, The Dream #lyrics

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. ~ Johann von Goethe #quote

We are all in this together, by ourselves. ~ Lily Tomlin #quote

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #quote

All these places have their moments with lovers and friends, I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living in my life, I've loved them all. ~ The Beatles, In My Life #Lyrics

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ~ Virginia Woolf #quote

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ~ Anais Nin #quote

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear. ~ Socrates #Quote

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ~ Henry David Thoreau #quote

You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you. Why don't you bring her upstairs? If she's so wild she can join in, too.  ~ The Rolling Stones, Stray Cat Blues #lyrics

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. ~ Charles Lamb #quote


The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. ~ Oscar Wilde #quote

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. ~ Aldous Huxley #quote

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~ Carl Gustav Jung #quote

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much. ~ Jean Paul #quote


For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice #quote

I understand about indecision, but I don't care if I get behind. People living in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind. ~ Boston, Peace Of Mind #Lyrics

I know myself, but that is all. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald #quote

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson #quote

Studied law, but not qualified to practice it. ~ Frank Zappa, Jesus Thinks Your A Jerk #lyrics


To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly. ~ Robethibodeau #quote

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behaviour perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. ~ Aldous Huxley #quote

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. ~ Henry David Thoreau #quote