Here's to friends, laughter, and something interesting.
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell
"Although I would like our world to change, It helps to appreciate those nights and those dreams, But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights, If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same." -Creed
"God bears with imperfect beings...even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people" ~Francois de Fendan
"The gold was put to flame...to kill; to burn; to mold its purity." ~Creed
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." ~Goethe
"There are very few things in the world worth more than a hug." - Amy Little
"It's just... I've never met anybody that I could laugh with... Do you believe in love at first sight?. I bet you don't, you're probably too sensible for that. Or, have you ever like seen somebody and you knew that if only that person really knew you, they would, of course, dump the perfect model that they were with, and realize that you were the one that they wanted to be with... You ever fall in love w/ somebody you haven't even talked to? Ever been so alone you spend the night talking to a man in a coma? - Lucy in While You were Sleeping
"Love is the salute of the angels to the stars." - Les Mis
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." ~Norman Vincent Peale
"Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." ~Thompson
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." - Les Mis
"You annoy me. Kill me instead." - Javert of Les Mis (my outlook on Monday mornings...)
"No man is worth your tears, And when you find the one who is, He will never make you cry." -unknown
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." ~Ambrose Bierce
"We like someone because. We love someone although." ~Henri De Montherlant
"A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble" ~Mahatma Gandhi
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Pierce (1842-1914)
"Taste is the enemy of creativity." - Pablo Picasso
"Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it."
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination"
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. Kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream." - Dead Poets Society
"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people trying to be important." ~T.S. Eliot
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." ~Joe Ancis
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value out of joy you must have someone to divide it with." ~Mark Twain
"No one can be wrong with man and right with God." ~Harry Emerson Fosdich (I'm sure, looking at our country's present situation, this is entirely possible.)
"When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your innerself." ~Confucious
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman
"In three words i can sum up everything i have learned about life: It goes on" - Robert Frost
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." - William Blake
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right." - Moliere
"Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful...Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain
"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent." ~Goethe
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain
"Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy." ~Benjamin Franklin
"He who slings mud generally loses ground." ~Adlai Stevenson
"If they give you lined paper, write the other way." - Juan Ramon Jimenez
"Those who dance are thought mad by those who don't hear the music" - A
"Never argue with a moron - he'll bring you down to his level and then beat you with experience." - Unknown
"Remember the eyes of those you have loved, for they have touched your soul" - A
"Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. But crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just crazy."
"The first draft of anything is sh*t." - Ernest Hemingway
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to rite 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." - Mark Twain
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - Clive James
"How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." ~Marcus Aurelius, circa A.D. 170
"I didn't know it was impossible when I did it."
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
"Reality is for people who lack imagination."
"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."
"Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
"'Friendship,' said Christopher Robin, 'is a very comforting sort of thing to have.'" - A.A. Milne
"Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable." ~Victor Hugo
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion." ~Dale Carregie
"Now selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go." ~C. Day-Lewis
"The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think." (What little insight men have into the female psyche!)
"If you cannot convince them, confuse them." - Harry S Truman
"Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering."
"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." - J. P. McEvoy
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant
"No one means all he says, and few say all they mean. For words are slippery and thought is vicious." ~Henry Brooks Adams
"Hearts may agree though heads differ." ~Thomas Fuller, 1732
"Civility costs nothing and buys everything." ~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1756
Hug someone. They may need it.
"The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. Love the Lord your god with all your soul and all your strength." ~Deuteronomy 6:4-5