Quotes, Poems and Stories

"The greatest risk is not taking one" - Unknown

"Love is love's reward." - John Dryden "The magic of First love is our ignorance that it can never end." - Benjamin Disarelli

"Woman in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of." - Ambrose Bierce

>"The real fool is the one who goes unasked" - Unknown

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry D. Thoreau

"You gotta sing like no one's listening, dance like no one's watching, and love like it's never gonna hurt." - Ferris Bueller

"Life seems a struggle between what we see and what we do" - Dave Matthews

"Very simple ideas lie in the complex mind of others" - Remy De Gourmont

"Do or do not. There is no try" - Yoda

"Tae Kwon Do won't do you any good if you're at the ATM and you catch a .38 slug in the face" - Come Back Alive

"Your body armor is strong, our tank dosen't care" - Unknown

"The promise will come when the promise is made" - Yes

"Never underestimate the enemy..." - Salem Arikan

"To teach is to learn twice" - Unknown

"Take my hand and come dance with the dead" - Lost in Twilight

"How do we know that this world isn't another world's hell?" - Unknown

"Do unto others as they have done to you; what the hell is this world coming to" - Metallica

"Just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it" - George Costanza

"Justice is lost" - Metallica

"Live to win, dare to fail, bleed the day and bite the nail" - Metallica

"The best thing about a goodbye is looking forward to the next hello" - Scott Miller

"Be courageous and be brave, in my heart you'll always stay, forever young" - Rod Stewart

"Everyone dies. It's the final and only lasting justice. Evil exists; it is intelligence in the service of entropy. When a mountain slides down to kill a village, this is not evil, for evil requires intent, however, were some sentient creature to cause that landslide this would be evil." - Josh Sudbury

"My best friends are the ones I've never met." - Michelle Newgard

"Still I see no changes, all I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace to races" - Tupac

"Love the world and join the world, love the Father and join the Father" - Jesus

"If you have no trust, then a bird in the hand really isn't worth those two in the bush" - Scott Miller

"The sword of justice is swift and sharp, don't misuse it" - Scott Miller

"I am the beast that feeds the beast, I am the blood, I am released" - Metallica

"Where's your crown King Nothing?" - Metallica

"To understand, you have to relate." - Salem Phoxethe

"You never start a fight, but you always finish it" - Commander of Babylon 5

"Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the doorbell and run like hell. Death hates that" - Unknown

"It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story." - Native American Saying

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." - Barbera De Angelis

"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." - Unknown

"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled." - Victor Hugo

"TO HELL WITH YOUR STANDARD" - C.S. Lewis

"It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." - Mick Jagger

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." - Karen Casey

"The thirst for a kiss is never quenched." - Salem Arikan

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

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"All men are born equal. 'Tis their actions, good or bad, over the course of their life that determines where they stand." - Salem Arikan

"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone." - Unknown

"There is a transcendence for those souls who have the courage of heart to love another, regardless of race, religion, gender, or social standing, to a much more beautiful and higher place..." - Unknown

"All you need is love." - John Lennon

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus

"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy." - Unknown

"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone." - St. Francis of Assisi

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To give pleasure to a single heart is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." - Gandhi

"Persistance is the key to anything and everything." - Salem Phox Arikan

"There has to be something there when the passion fades, and that's love." - Taren Arikan

"You never know what happiness a single act of kindness will bring about." - Bree Abel

"The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live." - Madame de Stael

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it." - Mark Twain

"In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure." - Heart Warrior Chosa

"Everything is a choice." - Joshua Sudbury

"The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place." - Barbera De Angelis

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."- James M. Barrie

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?" - Rumi

"Having a dream isn't stupid. It's not having a dream that's stupid." - Cliff Clavin

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision." - Helen Keller

"Face the thing you fear, and you do away with that fear." - Unknown

"Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it." - Thadeus Golas

"The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us." - Unknown

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by frost." - J. R. R. Tolkien

"Once upon a time, all people had four legs and two heads. Then the Gods threw down thunderbolts and split everyone into two. Each half then, had two legs and one head. But the separation left both sides with a desperate yearning to be reunited. And so both halves must wander the earth searching for their other half. And when they find it, they will be whole again." - Gabrielle

"Before you insult someone, walk a mile in their shoes, then, when you insult them, you'll be a mile away - and you'll have their shoes." - Cale McDowell

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. " - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. " - Gail Godwin

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. " - General George Patton

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

"The most important thing about goals is having one." - Geoffrey F. Abert

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." - Jessica Guidobono

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." - Samuel Smiles

"War does not decide who is right. It decides who is left" - Confucious

"It is not fair to ask of other what you are not willing to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"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

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something." - Hellen Keller

"Both tears and sweat are salty, but render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change." - Jesse Jackson

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said." - Unknown

"There are only two rules for success. 1. Never tell everything you know. 2. See #1." - Unkown

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

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

"Everything dies..." - Salem Arikan

"All of us are always going to do better tomorrow, and we would, too, if only we started today!" - Unknown

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." - Agnes Repplier

"Responsibility equals the price of greatness." - Winston Churchill

"Doing more things faster is no substiture for doing the right things." - Stephen R. Covey

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." - Don Marquis

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford

"It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce." - Voltaire

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

"In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." - Unknown

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington

"They always say that time changes things, but actually, you have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." - Kathleen A. Sutton

"If you treat people right, they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time calls for action has arrived, stop thinking, and go on in." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The bad thing about experience is that it teaches you the stuff you don't want to know." - Unknown

"Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there's an 'm' and an 'e'." - Kevin Meyers

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool." - William Shakespeare

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." - Unknown

"Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely." - Kay Lyons

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, bit in rising each time we fall." - Confucius

"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." - Lord Jeffery

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Elliot

"The future is always uncertain..." - Salem Arikan

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery and Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'." - Unknown

"Don't shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly and the best way to keep love is to give it wings." - Unknown

"Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but, where you are going." - Unknown

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become bitter or vain, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhre life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and lonliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding to as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, int he noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. - Max Ehrmann

The Oyster

There was once an oyster Whose story I tell, Who found that some sand Had got into his shell. It was only a grain, But it gave him great pain. For oysters have feelings Although they're so plain.

Now, did he berate The harsh workings of fate That had brought him To such a deplorable state? Did he curse at the government, Cry for election, And clain that the sea should Have given him protection?

No - he said to himself As he lay on a shell, Since I cannot remove it, I shall try to improve it. Now the years have rolled around, As the years always do, And he came to his ultimate Destiny - stew.

And the smal grain of sand That had bothered him so Was a beautiful pearl All richly aglow. Now the tale has a moral; For isn't it grand What an oyster can do With a morsel of sand?

What couldn't we do If we'd only begin With some of the things That get under our skin. - Unkown

If

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make them your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters the same; Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose your common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! - Rudyard Kipling