"Existentialism means no one else can take a bath for you."
-Sartre

"Masochism is a valuable job skill. "
-Chuck Palaniuk, Choke

"Books are a narcotic."
- Franz Kafka

Here's one I found today that I really like:

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dream." --Dr. Seuss

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

A bit of perspective never hurts:

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

- Carl Sagan

*bump*

"Wow Mr. So-and-So. You're looking good!"
-Aguagon at a funeral

I am in deep love with philosophers, here are a few.
"One is not born a woman, but one becomes one."
Simone de Beauvoir.
"Art is the proper task of life"
Friedrich Nietzsche.
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants"
Arthur Schopenhauer.

Artists have good quotes too.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
Leonardo da Vinci.
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
Michelangelo

Poets are great also.
"I love not man the less, but Nature the more."
Lord Byron
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
Emily Dickinson.
"Even were sleep conerned, too much is a bad thing"
Homer

Finally, in to finish my quotes, I have writers and novelists.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
J.R.R. Tolkien

Thank you for reading my text. It has a lot of my favorite writers, philosopher sna dpoets. I just want to say that I forgot Shakespeare by accident.

It's not advisable to leap before you look but that may be all you have time for.

~

Man made time. There fore it is as real as the chair you sit in. Man made time. Man can destroy it. Demolish it. And governmant can take it away.

~

There are two things that are most important and each lives in the unique hearts of individuals.

~

"Home is where the heart is." So then when we leave home.. is it then that we loose ourselves.

And finally, random quotes from "Meagan's Pink Book"...

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices. HP2

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.

The 10 commandments are not multiple choice.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!

Let there be frosting!

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Phillipians 4:13

When the going seems all uphill, just think of the view from the top.

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

We walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7

No trumpets sound then the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -Agnes de Mille

A single fantasy can transform a million realities. -Maya Angelou

Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle

Be the change you wish to see in the world. -Gandhi

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. -Robert Southey

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -Sir James M. Barrie

You never know when you're making a memory. -Meredith Rowe

Love is not what we become, but who we already are. -Steven Levine

I need to believe that something extrordinary is possible. -A Beautiful Mind

Fun quotes from my AIM profile...(GG stands for Gilmore Girls...)

The penal system is not something we enjoy...it is something with a name that makes us giggle. -GG

Now, nomally, I don't make jokes about Joseph Stolin...they're inappropriate! -GG

Fondue...the Catholics are bringing the cheese!-Meg

Then I asked myself, 'Where will people not notice a town full of robots? CONNECTICUT! (Stepford Wives)

Let me check my spinster schedule...OH! I'm knitting toilet paper cozies until three, but after that I'm good! -GG (note from Meg: welcome to my life...)

Why does everyone else get a NEW menu??? -GG

"RING..." (the phone)
"DON'T ANSWER THAT...ITS A FAX!" (my mom)
"ON YOUR CELL PHONE?!?" (my sister)

Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times if one just remembers to turn on the light. HP4

Dark and difficult times lie ahead...now is the time to choose between what is right and what is easy. HP4

So they actually tried to exercise you?
Yes.
Well that's nice, I guess... -Saved

You know you love it...the guilty pleasure of a guilty verdict. -Law and Order

Hydration...very creepy. -GG

My signature is just the end of my favorite quote:

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway."
-Mother Teresa

"When you grow up, your heart dies."
-Allison of 'The Breakfast Club'

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
-William Hazlitt

"..See, I was on the verge of breaking down, sometimes silence can seem so loud; there are miracles in life I must achieve, but first I know it starts inside of me; If I can see it, then I can be it; If I just believe it, there's nothing to it..."
-R. Kelly 'I Believe I Can Fly'

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart in a heartless world, just as it is the spirit in a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx 'Communist Manifesto'

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
-A. Sachs

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
-William Dement

I have two favorite quotes. They are:

quote:

we are born a privelege and with that comes specific obligations

; and,

quote:

It's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not

Always, Me.

jenos if someone wants to make a thread let them..if you dont like it then dont come to it.

"this is your life and its ending one minute at a time"

"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
Albert Camus

wilbur burst into tears.
"i dont want to die," he moaned. "i want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my frieds. I want to live breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun

My favorite quote is one written by Albert Camus, "In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer."

There are way too many threads already about this topic. Stop it.