301) "When you were born, the world laughed and you cried. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

302) "You can’t build a reputation on what you’re GOING to do." --Henry Ford

303) "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." --Charles Kingsley

304) "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." --Wil Rogers

305) "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." --De les

306) "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be." --Goethe

307) "Once a word goes out of your mouth, you can never swallow it again." --Russian proverb

308) "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory no defeat." --Theordore Roosevelt

309) "Few people think more than two or three times a year. I’ve made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." --George Bernard Shaw

310) "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think." --William Shakespeare

311) "Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." --Mark Twain

312) "We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one-the one we use-which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it." --Mark Twain

313) "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

314) "Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t." --Richard Bach

315) "There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." --Gerald Douglas Macarthur

316) "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." --Henry David Thoreau

317) "Take a chance! All of life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore." --Dale Carnegie

318) "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." --Ronald E. Osborn

319) "Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring person on the desert of water, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny." --Carl Shurz

320) "We must be the change we wish to see in the world. --Gandhi

321) "Some people see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were, and say 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw

322) "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." --Rainer Maria Rilke

323) "Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." --Bertolt Brecht

324) "Life isn't about keeping score./ It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all./ It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. / It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school./ In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not./ Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are./ Life just isn't about that./ But life is about who you love and who you hurt./ It's about how you feel about yourself./ It's about trust, happiness, and compassion./ It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love./ Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence./ It's about what you say and what you mean./ It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have./ Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise./ These choices are what life's about." -- Nike ad

325) "Dancing is just a conversation between two people. Talk to me." --Harry Connick Jr. (Hope Floats)

326) "Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most." --Sandra Bullock (Hope Floats)

327)"Friends are like diamonds precious and rare, false friends are like autumn leaves found everywhere."

328) "What I would really like said about me is that I dared to love." --Maya Angelou

329 ) "Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday." --Thornton Wilder

330) "One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful..." --Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It)

331) "One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star." --Friedrich Nietzche

332) "A faithful heart makes wishes come true." --Lo (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

333) "How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?"--Jonathan Larson (Rent)

334) "All changes have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die one life before we can enter unto another."--Anatole France

335) "There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." --Epictetus

336) "Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great peices of good fortune that happen but seldom." --Benjamin Franklin

337) "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau

338) "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."

339) "Without change there can be no breakthroughs. Without breakthroughs there can be no future."

340) "Know the value of time; snatch, seize, and enoy every moment of it. No ildeness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." --Earl of Chesterfield

341) "When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die." --Eleanor Roosevelt

342) "The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what itis tha tinterst you an that you can do well, and when you find it put your soul into it - every bit of energy and amition and natural ability you have." --John D. Rockefeller

343) "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest." --Mark Twain

344) "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

345) "Do not live in the fear of what the future may hold. Live in the anticipation of the new opportunities that lie ahead."

346) "Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." --Ella Fitzgerald

347) "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." --Henry Ward Beecher

348) "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: that is the ideal life." --Mark Twain

349) "It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while." --Don Marquis

350) "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward." --Dag Hammerskjvid

351) "The only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." --Richard Bach

352) "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." --Franklin D. Roosevelt

353) "Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." --Hasidic Proverb

354) "Happiness is not a state to arrive at but, rather, a manner of traveling." --Samuel Johnson

355) "To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess." --Glen Holm

356) "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." --Anatole France

357) "There is no duty so much underrated as the duy of being happy." --Robert Louis Stevenson

358) "There are things I can't force, I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint." --C.M. Ward

359) "We confide in our strenth, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it." --Thomas Jefferson

360) "A fool with a sense of his foolishness is--at least to that extent--wise. But a fool who thinks himself wise really deserves to be called a fool."

361) "Friendship is love with understanding." --Ancient Proverb

362) "No man/woman is worth your tears and the only one who is, will never make you cry." --Unknown

363) "Those that succeed are those that are never willing to forget the childlike dream."

364) "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive." --Oriah Mountain Dreamer

365) "The shortest distance between two points is a leap of faith." --Unknown

366) "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."--Henri Nouwen (Out of Solitude)

367) "Character cannot be developed through ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

368) "To be lost is only a failure of memory." --Margaret Atwood, "A Boat"

369) "It is better to die with memories than live only with dreams."

370) "May those who love us love us, those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. If He can't turn their hearts may he turn their ankles so we may know them by their limp" --Keeping the Faith

371) "While the difficult takes time, the impossible just takes a little longer." --Art Berg

372) "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." --Voltaire

373) "It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened." --Fried Green Tomatoes

374) "All we have is how you remember me. I need that memory to be strong and beautiful...if I know that I'm remembered that way then I can face anything." --Charlize Theron (Sweet November)

375) "I surrender all the tempts to control life, yours or mine. I live for one thing. To love you, to make you happy, to live firmly and joyously in the moment." --Keanu Reeves (Sweet November)

376) "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." --Bernadette Devlin

377) "There is one social skill that can serve as your strongest asset in a job interview. In private life, it makes people fall in love with you and seek you for purposes ranging from honored dinner guest to spouse; and in business it helps more than any other single qualification, with the possible exception of being the owner's eldest child. That is enthusiasm. A look of vitality and happiness, an interest in the world and an eagerness to participate in life, is what is called charm in the social milieu; but in the working world is called competence." --Judith Martin

378) "Life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." --Unknown

379) "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." --Sir Winston Churchill

380) "Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff."

381) "Being a friend is not only knowing when to be there for the ones you love, but also knowing when to let go of them when it seems you are oceans apart while still clinging to their hand."

382) "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."--Joseph Addison

383) "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend."--Robert Louis Stevenson

384) "She began to cry. Just crying-the deep and ugly kind, the kind you lose yourself in, thanking God no one has to see how rubbed and blotched your face becomes, though some detached part of you also wishes there were someone to see you now, to see and understand how sad you are, at heart. They don't see it, of course; you'd never show them." --Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch

385) "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville

386) "Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good Character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece...by thought, choice, courage, and determination." --John Luther

387) "He who would gather roses must not fear thorns." --Unknown

388) "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." --Booker T. Washington

389) "In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself..." --Benjamin Franklin

389) "Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself." --Antoine De Saint-Exupery

391) "I seek to make you happy, if only for the time with me and the gentleness of friendship."--Lynn Ray

392) "Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometime they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by."

393) "Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart."--Angela on My So-Called Life

394) "I've believed ever since that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death." --John H. Johnson

395) "Nothing is impossible if you follow your heart." --Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina

396) "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." --John Henry Newman

397) "Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them." --Budd Schulberg

399) "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." --Marcel Proust

400) "The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed." --Nicolas-Sebastien de Chamfort