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"Above all, life should be fun."
-Unknown
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace." - Unknown
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A"Your heart often knows things before your mind does." "If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a terrible warning." "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." "From a little spark may burst a mightly flame." "Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes." "As long as you keep a person down... a part of you has to be down there so it means you cannot soar." "Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." "Ain't nothin' to it but to do it." "He who has not learned to obery cannot be a good commander." "To many total abstinence is easier than total moderation." "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." B"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you. We are all learners, doers, and teachers." "A man is but what he knoweth." "Knowledge is power." "As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." "Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness." "Life is a long lesson in humility." "You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine." "One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius." "Before you put on a frown... make absolutely certain there are no smiles available." "What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of." "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin somebody else's dog around." "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else." "To the world, you may just be one person; but to one person, you may be the world." "Never express yourself more clearly than you think." "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." "Snowflakes are a fragile thing individually, but look at what they can do when they stick together." "Every flower has to go through a lot of dirt." "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." "That's it, baby. When you've got it, flaunt it." "The only limits are, as always, those of vision." "Strive for excellence, not perfection." "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." "Your goals are your road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life." "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude." "A man reveals his character even in the simplest thing he does." "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared." "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." "I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned." "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood, and probably themselves will not be realized." "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." "You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it." C"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." "'Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here?' "You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." "Love not what you are but only what you may become." "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." "Dig a well before you are thirsty." "Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand." "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." "If we loose affection and kindliness from our life, we've lost all that gives it charm." "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." "If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality." "When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." "Without music, life is a journey through a desert." "The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep." "The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter." "It's not what people do to us that hurts us, it's our chosen response to what they do that hurts us." "If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." "He who stops being better stops being good." "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." D"We will be known by the tracks we leave behind." "What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us." "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." "Hell, if you understand everything I say, you'd be me." "If a kid discovers if she or he may be gay, or thinks they may be, in high school, they do everything they can to hide it. It is a very uncomfortable and difficult experience for them. In fact, the suicide rate among gay and lesbian teenagers is about three times the rate of that for teenagers who are not gay or lesbian. That's a terrible struggle for them to go through. I think nobody would willingly go through that struggle. Most of the evidence is that people are born heterosexual or born homosexual." "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." "The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important." "Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas Time." "Little things affect little minds." "He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality." E"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design." "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress." "You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, the Universe is unfolding as it should." "A problem is a chance for you to do your best." "It is never too late to be what you might have been." "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up ever time we fail." "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." "Only the educated are free." "In youth we learn, in age we understand." F"We all find time to do what we really want to do." "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progess; working together is success." "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." "Always take a job that's too big for you, and then do your best." "At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment." "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everthing for money." "The best thing to give an enemy is forgiveness; "Well done is better than well said." "Happiness makes up for in height what it lacks in length." "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." "Nature provides exceptions to every rule." "Dare to be naive." "All doors are open to courtesy." G"A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than an 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." "My life is my message." "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." "They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them." "One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure." "Often you just have to rely on your intuition." "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." "Excellence is not a spectator sport. Everyone's involved." "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." "May the Clock, the Candle, may everything I see, teach and instruct me something." "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." "My dream was that you slept with people you liked and would not know about their sex until you undressed them." "The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." "Adventure is not outside a man, it is within." "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." H"Perfection is the child of time." "We must either find a way or make one." "One who looks for a friend without faults will have none." "Prejudice is the child of ignorance." "The more we do, the more we can do." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." "Courage is grace under pressure." "Even nectar is poison if taken in excess." "If you don't say what you really mean, then nobody will know who you really are." "Some things have to be believed to be seen." "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception is composed of others." "Do not tell your problems to people: eighty percent do not care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them." "The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is--it's to imagine what is possible." "He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence." "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone." IJ"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." "Feel the fear and do it anyway." "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives." "Conversation is the art of telling people a little less than they want to know." "There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living." "It does not require many words to speak the truth." "What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight." "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." K"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." "My friends have made the story of my life... turned my limitations into beautiful privilages, and enabled me to walk serene and happy." "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." "Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." "We should not let our fears hold us back from our hopes." "Many gay activists had written off glossies like The Advocate and Out years ago, well before they were consolidated into one company -- bemoaning the soft-focus feature stories on gay vacation spots and diet and fitness trends, the proliferation of ads hawking the latest high-end fashions and luxury goods, the obsession with celebrities and the aversion to anything that could possibly be deemed perverse, kinky or too political. Critics often registered these complaints under the rubric of 'lifestyle'; the gay glossies, they argued, were simply 'lifestyle publications' that manufacture and market a version of gay life that is increasingly commodified, depoliticized, desexualized, white and rich. There's a lot of truth to these critiques." "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy." "All significant breakthroughs are break-'withs' old ways of thinking." "Speak your mind, even if your voice quakes." |
L"We live in a moment in history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is disappearing." "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." "I think if we call it 'marriage,' we're never going to get anywhere. I think that you're playing with something that is a tradition and an institution to a certain majority of people. Why go there? Create a new language, create a new tradition, then approach the government about tax rights and rights in hospitals. Instead of fitting into something that's not ours, we have to build our own culture. We're historically an alternative and cryptic culture, and to me, that's one of the beautiful parts of being gay. Even though you may not want to live in the closet, it's about being discreet and being private and being a little more romantic." "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." "As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, so to yield with life solves the insolvable: to yield, I have learned, is to come back again." "If there is no wind, row." "To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." "Life is ours to be spent, not saved." "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire." "There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve." "There is no dishonor in rethinking a problem." "You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough." "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." "The question should be 'is it worth trying to do,' not 'can it be done?'" M"Love is a bird, she needs to fly. Let all the hurt inside you die. You're frozen when your heart's not open." "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do. Nothing else." "In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough." "Justice limps along ... but it gets there all the same." "If you only have a hammer, every problem is a nail." "The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while." "While it is a sin to think evil of others, it is seldom a mistake." "Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must a hundred try." "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." "First ponder, then dare." "Minds ripen at very different ages." "General notions are generally wrong." "The most universal quality is diversity." "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. "You have to study a great deal to know a little." "The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." N"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." "Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." "Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." "Become who you are." O"I wasn't going to spend my life doing what had already been done." "No man is free until he conquers himself." "Without consistency there is no moral strength." P"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away." "Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." "Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speach you'll ever regret." "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth." "A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him." QR"We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible." "There is something more powerful than anybody--and that is everybody." "In a democratic society, the fact that our affectional urges are diverse and that we choose to fulfill them comfortably--all of us to our own degree--ought to be sufficient. So far in repressed America, both 'gays' and 'straights' have yet to reach such human understandings." "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." "Life was meant to be lived and curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." "We have always held to the hope, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon." "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in." "When I ask you to listen and you start giving advice, you have not done what I have asked. "Hesitancy in judgement is the only true mark of the thinker." "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once ecentric." "Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent." S"A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reach slowly and against many obstacles, ilnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories." "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." "I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies." "It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you are truly a wise man." "People have forgotten this truth, but you musn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed." "To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world." "You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'" "They follow sports, wear flannel shirts, smoke, drink, belch and make crude jokes. Oh, one other thing. They're gay." "Those who cannot remember the past are condemmed to repeat it." "No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse." "It is a great thing to do something others say can't be done." "It is not well to see everything, to hear everything; let many causes of offense pass by us unnoticed." "What e'er thou art, act well thy part." "A light heart lives long." "Our doubts are traitors; and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." "Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." "Never say more than is necessary." "I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring." "To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone." "The gay scene is like a port in a storm where you dock for a while. As it's grown bigger and bolder, more body-oriented and looks-oriented, it's become more mercenary. I don't feel that it has much to offer me, but I try not to be too judgmental, because I do feel it has things to give to a younger generation. It's just sad that it can't be a scene that can encompass more shapes and sizes." "I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand." "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." "Some days you just have to create your own sunshine." "Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love." T"In the long run, we only hit what we aim at." "Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." "Read the best books first, or you may not have time to read them all." "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat." "If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done." "To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy...is to set our own conditions to the events of each day." "If you wait long enough, your future will reveal itself." "What makes leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do, and like it." "No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back." "You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win." "Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." "Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." "Progress is not created by contented people." U"Everybody is talented, original, and has something improtant to say." "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." "If you want to get the best out of someone, you must look for the best that is in them." "Some goals are so worthy that it is glorious even to fail." "Sometimes holding on makes you stronger; sometimes it's letting go." "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." V"If homosexuality were in fact a biological error [as Dr. Laura says], there would be little point in telling gays to seek any sort of psychotherapy for it [as Dr. Laura does]. We do not normally tell people who have diabetes, or sickle cell anemia or a defective heart valve to get psychotherapy to fix their biological error. Why do so with homosexuality?" "Great thoughts come from the heart." "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." "Fortune favors the bold." "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." "The enemy of the best is the good." "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts." W"Life is never easy for those who dream." "Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." "The only thing I am afraid of is fear." "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." "Lose an hour in the morning and you will spend all day looking for it." "Every man sing his own song in life." "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." "The Gods have two ways of dealing harshly with us - the first is to deny us our dreams and the second is to grant them." "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." "Petty ills try the temper worse than great ones." "One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them." XY"Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?" Z"When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart." |
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