201) "I am not afraid of the storm for I am just learning to sail my ship."

202) "Listen to the land you walk on; it will teach you."

203) "To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy." --Sun Yat-sen

204) "All that you touch and all that you see is all that your life will ever be." --Pink Floyd

205) "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not taek a trip; a trip takes us." --John Steinback

206) "The simple change of and old ship's course, marks the the passing of a lifetime, and the beginning of a memory."

207) "Blessed are the flexible for they shall never be bent out of shape."

208) "Community is coming together in unity."

209) "The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of heaven and earth." --Benjamin Disraeli

210) "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." --Art Linkletter

214) "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension." --Oliver Wendell Holmes

215) "We must think of this voyage as we would of a happy day, counting it as a pleasure to have had it, but not a sorrow because it could not last forever." --Calvin Coolidge

216) "The knowlege of the world is only to be acquired in the world and not in a closet." --Lord Chesterfield

217) "You'll never discover what lies on the other side of the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

218) "The more I see the less I know for sure." --John Lennon

219) "We shall not cease from exploration. And at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." --T.S. Eliot

220) "Students need to learn it is not their apitutde, but their attitutde that will determine their altitude." --Jesse Jackson

221) "To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die." --Thomas Campbell

222) "It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

223)"Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind." --Henri Frederic Amiel

224) "The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes." --Alain de Botton

225) "Only as high as I reach can I grow,/ Only as far as I seek can I go,/ Only as deep as I look can I see,/ Only as much as I dream can I be." --Karen Ravn

226) "For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'" --John G. Whittier

227) "There are many things in this world that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. . .pursue those."

228) "Fight the things you don't want to live with. Ask why they have to be that way. Then change them." --Nike Ad

229) "All the strength and all the courage and all the peace we're ever going to need starts right here with me loving you, just like this. And you loveing me, just like this." --Pearl Cleage

230) "I looked up into his face, and it looked like home, and all of a sudden standing there keeping watch outside of that madhouse, I felt like I almost understood. What was important and what was not. What was worth the time and effort and what was just a bunch of bullshit. And the more I looked at Eddie looking back at me, the more it was starting to make sense. Not all of it, but a little. Just a little, and at that point, that was all I needed." --Pearl Cleage

231) "And we danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged to hard, and kissed too sweet, and threw back our heads, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl. Because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight." --Pearl Cleage

232) "Happiness isn't getting what you want, it is wanting what you've got." --Garth Brooks

233) "We've got a lot of members here that seem to think harass is two words not one." --Pat Schroeder (House of Rep)

234) "Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol."

235) "Love knows no prejudice." --Jennifer Love Hewitt

236) "My only love sprung from my only hate." --William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

237) "Through the good times, through the bad times, when a man loves a woman it's for all times." --When a Man Loves a Woman

238) "The best antiques are old friends."

239) "Inspiration--Inspiration isn't man-made. It's a gift from nature. And when it comes it creates something original and beautiful." --Evian Ad

240) "Promise--Inside me lives a promise to smell the flowers along the way. As opposed to just the roses." --Evian Ad

241) "I always knew I'd look back on the tears with laughter, but never on the laughter with tears."

242) "We think according to nature; we speak according to rules; we act according to custom." --Francis Bacon

243) "Love is an attempt to chang a piece of dream-world into reality."

244) "Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass, and it goes to pieces."

245) "Men love little and often. Women love much and rarely."

246) "Being loved by someone gives you strength, but loving someone else gives you courage."

247) "When somebody you love becomes a treasure, that treasure becomes a memory."

248) "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched. . . but are felt in the heart." --Helen Keller

249) "You're not born a woman. You become one."

250) "We are limited by attitude, not opportunity."

251) "In every life there comes a time when that dream you dream becomes that thing you do." --That Thing You Do

252) "The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it." --Roseanne Barr

253) "Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."

254) "Once I love you./ Sometimes I miss you./ Always I'll care for you./ Never will I forget you."

255) "Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for." --Ruth Boorstin

256) "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life." --Sandra Carey

257) "You cannot choose your battlefields, the Gods do that for you. But you can plant your standard where a standard never flew." --Nathaniel Crane

258) "While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." --Leonardo Da Vinci

259) "The roses you have given me faded, the petals have fallen away, but the love tucked deep inside them has entered my heart to stay."

260) "A mighty pain to love it is,/ and tis a pain that pain to miss./ But of all pains, the greatest pain,/ It is to love, but love in vain"

261) "As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man."

262) "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

263) "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

264) "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will get better; the realist changes the sails."

265) "I believe we are here for a reason. I believe that as the day unfolds we see less of the shadow and more of the sun, less of the tarnish and more of the gold." --C. Hawkinson

266) "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell." --Edna St. Vincent Millay

267) "A part of you has grown with me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart."

268) "We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love." --Mother Teresa

269) "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

270) "We don't believe in rheumatism or true love until the first attack." --Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

271) "A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value than when she forgets she is a woman and begins to act like a man" --Lemore Kretzer Sullivan

272) "What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be." --Ellen Burstyn

273) " I never said 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference." --Gretta Garbo

274) "Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words and never stops at all." --Emily Dickinson

275) "Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open." --John Barrymore

276) "I cannot be an Asian American on Monday, a woman on Tuesday, a lesbian on Wednesday, a worker/student on Thursday, and a political radical on Friday. I am all these things every day." --Emily Woo Yamaski

277) "A smile has only one translation across barriers--warmth."

278) "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." --Brian Warner

279) "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lives. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." --Richard Bach

280) "I'm just a Raggedy Ann in a Barbie Doll world."

281) "It's a love that just won't leave us. If you take or leave my love. . . I will always be with you."

282) "Friends are angels following you through life."

283) "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." --Robert Stevenson

284) "Some people come into our lives and quickly go./ Some people move our souls to dance./ They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wsidom./ Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon./ They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts,/and we are never, ever the same."

285) "Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence, but not your hope. How to laugh forever. --Amy Tan

286) " One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it is possible, speak a few reasonable words." --Goethe

287) "You will never know love unless you surrender to it." --Fools Rush In

288) "I can't eat and I can't sleep/ Sometimes I find it hard to breathe/ I break down and cry not knowing why/ But now I can't lie,/ I'm standing on the edge of good-bye." --John Berry (Edge of Goodbye)

289) "I only see myself reflected in your eyes, so all that I beleive I am essentially are lies, and everything I hoped to be or thought I was, died with your belief in me, so who the hell am I? --Stabbing Westward (Shame)

290) "I am beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head." --Ani DeFranco

291) "Giggle. No, laugh. No, howl as if you've never grown up."

292) "I have the right not to remain silent, to put myself first, be sexy, intelligent and tough all at the same time. To be rich and happy. Anything I desire may not be held against me. Do you understand these rights?" --Reebok Ad

293) "Within me lives a superhero who is swift and strong and comes to the rescue of those who need her. She prefers, however, not to wear a cape." --Evian Ad

294) "That all women are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." --Reebok Ad

295) "Do you know a hero no one else knows? A hero doesn't have to save a busload of school kids from certain disaster. Or score the winning point in the big game. A hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to, anyone who cheers you on, makes you better than you were before--just as they made themselves better than they were before. Do you know a hero? Tell her. Then tell everyone." --Nike Ad

296) "I had a dream my life would be,/ so differnt from this hell I'm living./ So different now from what it seems/ Now life has killed the dream I dreamed." --Les Miserables

297) "Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to show." --Mignon Mclaughlin

298) "Carpe Diem!" --Horace

299) "The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen." --Nike Ad

300) "Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. . . You must do that which you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Roosevelt