famous people quotes

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius. It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
Steven D. Woodhull

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
Jim Rohn

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.
Unknown

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Jack Kerouac

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
Mohandas Gandhi

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like a volcano and then subsides and when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part, because this is what love is. Love is not the breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promise of eternal passion, and it is not the desire to mate every minute or every second of the day. That is just being "in love" which any fool can do. Love itself is what's left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Louis De Bernieres

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner

Love endures when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
Walter Lippmann

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

Sometimes you have to just take a chance in love and life. You can't live your life amongst a mound of "what ifs." You have to follow your heart and hope for the best.
Unknown

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.
Leo Buscaglia

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
Bernie Siegel

You may wish to be loving -- you may even try with all your might -- but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.
John Gray

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Don Juan De Marco

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Leo Buscaglia

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Eileen Caddy

If you create the space and the desire to have love in your heart as your top priority, you'll start to see that you have the capacity to make loving decisions, and to have loving reactions, and to become nondefensive, and to become a better listener...and pretty soon a little annoyance will come your way or someone will do something wrong...and you'll just find yourself forgiving them. You'll find yourself not wanting to be thrown off-center simply to follow some negative train of thought that's going to bring you somewhere you don't want to go. You'll find yourself able to stay in that feeling of love -- and when you do, almost everything else magically takes care of itself...love is the most important answer in life.
Richard Carlson

I have a thought...the one God has meant for us is going to be the hardest to get, the hardest to keep, and the hardest to accept. Because through all that, love will grow stronger, bonds will become thicker, and the future will become more clear. Love wasn't made to be easy, otherwise, we wouldn't end up with the right person, we would end up with the first one who came along. By struggling, we single out the wrong ones and realize who really is the one.
Unknown

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
Irish Saying

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Butch Hancock

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas. We know we don't know.
Stephen King

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Suess

I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.
Britney Spears

I have the heart of a small boy. It's in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Never judge a book by its movies.
J.W. Eagen

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!
Peter McWilliams

A person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them.
Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us.
Meister Eckhart

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.
Felix Adler

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Midler

Always love your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.
Lynn Lavner

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkei

They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

I have opinions of my own--strong opinions--but I don't always agree with them.
George Bush Sr.

Solutions are not the answer.
Richard Nixon

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P.J. O'Rourke

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
G.K. Chesterton

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Dr. Karl Menninger

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Harold Loukes

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
Louise Hay

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Joan Crawford

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinson

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Mary Roberts Rhinehart

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck

If you had one phone call to make before you died, who would you call, what would you say, and why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine

Love is the greatest feeling you will ever have, yet it is also one of the greatest sorrows. There is so much suffering, but then there are times when the crying, pain, and heartache is worth it. Those moments are perfect, they are right. Those moments make all the suffering worth while. It's those moments we should live for.
Unknown

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!
Maryon Pearson

There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that.
Steve Martin

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Unknown

Happiness is not found at the end of the road, it is experienced along the way. So take not for granted each moment of your life and you will find a reason to be happy each day.
Unknown

There is one moment in your life when you are with someone and you feel like the world has stopped and your life seems so perfect, make sure you never lose that person.
Unknown

Don't let your mind rule over your heart.
Unknown

Just because something good ends doesn't mean something better won't begin.
Nathanael Brown

You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end.
Unknown

I've kissed a guy... I've kissed guys. I just haven't felt that thing.... That thing... that moment when you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy, and the only thing in focus is you and this person. And you realize that that person is the only person you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life. And for one moment you get this amazing gift. And you wanna laugh and you wanna cry, 'cause you feel so lucky that you've found it, and so scared that it'll go away all at the same time.
Drew Barrymore

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts)

Love is the slowest form of suicide.
Unknown

Sometimes a rose is destined to love a thorn.
Gabe Wilson

Everyone must go through a storm to get to a rainbow.
Unknown

To love someone is nothing. To be loved by someone is something. To love and be loved by someone is everything.
Haslinda Haniff

What's meant to be will always find a way.
Unknown

When you love, there's no such thing as loving a little, but loving all the way. Love may not ask you to give up your life, but it will require lots of sacrifices.
Fale Amis Pedeglorio

A failing love is like desperately hanging on to something precious; not wanting to give up, but your hands feel the pain. And, when you finally let go, you're free from any pain, but your hands are empty.
Unknown

When speaking of lost love, time may heal all wounds, but there will always be scars.
Andrea Stinedurf

A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.
Len Wein

If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.
J.K. Rowling

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.
Mark Twain

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
William James

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.
Dave Barry

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
Thomas Asasz

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders (last words)

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Sir Arnold Bax

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. Milne

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Lily Tomlin

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Mark Twain

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Robert Wilensky

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.
Unknown

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
Unknown

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Gustav Jung

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
Sebastian Horsley

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly

I don't need a man to fight my battles, fix my head, or kill the ugly bugs in the bathtub. I just want someone who fires my heart and lends strength to my sword arm.
Catherine Censure

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
Unknown

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Douglas Yates

Love is merely madness...
William Shakespeare

The courses of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
Ralph Connor

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
George Whyte-Melville

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.
Rev Ed Hird

Love is friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
Leo Buscaglia

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Henry Drummond

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.
Mandy Hampton

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz

The wise man will love; all others will desire.
Afranius

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
Barbara Hall

It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Albert Camus

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words--"Wait and hope."
Alexandre Dumas

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E. H. Chapin

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis

I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Unknown

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Adams

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Mark Twain

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
Mark Twain

You only live one time and your chance to make it perfect is short. You have to forget the pain and what people did to you. Do what makes you happy. Live for yourself and no one else. Live for truth and be yourself. Most importantly live by the fact that everything happens for a reason.
Unknown

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.
Unknown

Sometimes the sitting, waiting, and wondering what's going to happen can be more painful then what actually happens.
Unknown

The guy showed my a picture of himself. He was like, "Hey, this is a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture is a picture of you when you were younger. If a guy came up to me and was like, "Hey, this is a picture of me when I am older," I'd be like, "What the fuck? Where'd you get that camera?"
Mitch Hedberg

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.
Unknown

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P.J. O'Rourke

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.
P.J. O'Rourke

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CDs and burn them.
Bill Hicks

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it's off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married.
Joseph Campbell

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.
Joseph Campbell

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.
Unknown

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.
Unknown

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
Unknown

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
Jennifer James

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
Unknown

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
Unknown

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.
Don Schrader

If you use the electric vibrator near water, you will come and go at the same time.
Louise Sammons

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Mignon McLaughlin

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.
Bob Rubin

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valéry

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
Paul Vixie

No.
President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy, when asked if she had any message for the children of America