"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato
Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open.
Yesterday is a history, tomorrows a mystery and today is a gift, that’s why we call it the present.
To handle yourself use your head; to handle others use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of Danger.
Learn from the mistakes of others, you cant live long enough to make them all yourself.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a very big man to laugh at that big man and an even bigger man to ask why.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. That is well worth having. It warns you not to do it again.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what Would you say? And why are you waiting?
Shoot for the moon... 'cause even if you miss, you'll end up in the stars.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
People who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
If you want the rainbow you got to put up with the rain.
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
1500 years ago, everyone knew that the sun revolved around the earth. 500 years ago, everyone knew the world was flat. Yesterday you knew that we were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll learn tomorrow. – Men In Black.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry and you have to blow your nose.
They could be just like us, we expect little green men in flying saucers. But what about their animals? - http://www.crystalcavern.com
Which is worse, a lie that draws a smile or a truth that brings a tear? - Miracle on 34th Street.
Abraham Lincoln was once talking with a woman about how the North must treat the South. She disagreed with him, and said that she felt that we must destroy our enemies. Lincoln replied, "What, madam? Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"
Inside or outside of a ring, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. Its staying down that’s wrong. – Muhammad Ali
Knowledge can be a blunt sword against ignorance.
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
This is the world Kurt built for himself, when the real world was not enough. Listen again if you think you know it; listen loud if you don't know it yet. Then build your own. - David Fricke
Help me to be the person my dog thinks I am
It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Peace - something to shoot for.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. 'Nothing' is the worst thing that can happen to us
In the long term it would make me happy to go to school and be successful, in the short term it would make me happy to go out and have fun, but in the VERY long term, I know which one will make better memories.
Today is the tomorrow we dreamed about yesterday.
A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.
If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered twelve thousand ideas that don't work. - Thomas Eddison (I think)
Everything's alright in the end, if it's not alright then it's not the end.
You gotta dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow… You gotta dance like no ones watching and love like it never gonna hurt.
Remember, everyone you meet is a friend of someone's, loves someone, and has lost someone.
Problem is just a bleak word for challenge.
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice.
Remember, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted.
What if the word wasn't OK. What if the word was….."what if"? - Advert for something.
Do It. It's easier to get forgiveness then permission.
Only people with goodness in their hearts will see magnificent mysterious beasts. - http://www.crystalcavern.com
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed.
The reasonable person adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable person persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable person.
We can not direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
"The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see
To do the necessary task that was allotted me.
Resentment of the vivid glow, I started to complain--
When all at once upon the air I heard the blindman's cane." - Earl Musselman.
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice.
...If I can wipe from any human cheek a tear...teach one man that God and heaven are near...make more joy, more hope, less pain...though no one knows my name, nor drops a flower upon my grave, I shall not have lived in vain while here.
"A satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairys wing." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
