Serious Quotes

I was re-reading "Go Ask Alice" the other day, and I came across a couple of lines I thought were interesting, so I decided to put them here, along with other not-really-funny-but-cool-or-inspiring-quotes-and/or-song-lyrics. Anyway, I like 'em so enjoy!

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"Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy all the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot." -Go Ask Alice

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"I used to think I was the only one who felt things, but I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity." -Go Ask Alice

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"Every time I pin down what I think I want, it slips away." -"Butterfly" by Weezer

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"The only man who is worth your tears is the one who will never make you cry."

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"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will land among the stars." -Les Brown

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"Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile."

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"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this bag was dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and this incredible benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever." -American Beauty (yes, I stole this from Ryan's profile, sorry!)

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"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me...but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life." -American Beauty (Stolen again)

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"There's no place like home." -Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz)

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“If you live for the present, you short change the future.”

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“I’m dying to be alive.” –Hanson

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“In the days to come, you’ll say ‘Why did I wait?’. You can’t just leave your life up to fate. You got to turn it around before it’s too late.” –Hanson, “Dying To Be Alive”

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“Goodbye four leaf clovers, Hello gone awry, Don’t cry, the fight ain’t over, unless you let it pass you by.” –Hanson, “A Song To Sing”

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“Don’t wander through this glassy surface expecting to find more than me, ‘cause what am I without a purpose, but a lone mirage to see.” –Hanson, “A Song To Sing”

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“We are the music makers, we are the dreamers.” –Willy Wonka

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“Take time to love and care, take time to feel for others fare, just let them know that even when the world goes wrong, you’ll be a friend.”

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“To love someone is one thing, to be loved by one is another, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.”

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“Where’s the love?” –Hanson

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“Nothing gold can stay.” –The Outsiders

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“You miss a beat, you lose a rhythm.” –Van Halen, “Right Now”

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“Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of somebody else.”

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“Advice is what we ask when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”

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“Imagine.” –John Lennon

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“Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?”

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“Those who wish to sing always find a song.”

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“The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.” –Nietzsche

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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.” –Helen Keller

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“Little by little, life’s music goes by, short if sing, long if you sigh. Note by note, life’s music plays on, ever changing but never gone.”

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“If you cannot have what you like, you can like what you have.”

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“A man is only as big as the dreams he dares to live.”

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“My greatest fear is not to die, but to die without ever having lived.”

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“To thine own self be true.”

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“Te cognoscere.”, (“Know thyself”)

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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall.” -Confucious

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“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” –Dr. Suess

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“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” –Albert Einstein

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“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” –Frank Crane

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“If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.” –Abigail Van Buren

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“A man in a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” –Bob Dylan

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“The only real risk is the risk of thinking too small.” –Frances Moore Lappe

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“When in doubt, wear red.” –Bill Blass

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“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.” –Mae West

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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.” –Ted Turner

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“Find out what you like doing best and find someone to pay you for doing it.” –Katherine Whitehorn

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“A show of envy is an insult to oneself.” –Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“You are the product of your own brainstorm.” –Rosemary Konner Steinbaum

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“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.” –Bern Williams

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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” –William Shakespeare

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“It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.” –Addison Walker

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"There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch like a match, but it burns quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes...it's eternal, don't forget that." -Tim Oliveira, the Advice Maestro

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"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

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"Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me nor the other strike." Ben Johnson

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"All that we see or seem, is just a dream within a dream." –Poe

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“Women think they're so clever in faking orgasms, but only men can fake whole relationships.”

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"Sing like there's nobody listening, Dance like there's nobody watching, Work like you don't need the money, Love like you’ve never been hurt, Live like there’s no tomorrow."

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"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one..." -The Catcher In The Rye

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“It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.”

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"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa

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"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." -I forgot...

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"For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -Winston Churchill

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"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish." -Albert Einstein

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"To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so."

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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -Helen Keller

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"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." -Sun-Tzu

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"Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story." -Iris Murdoch

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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant." -Anne Bradstreet

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"Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open." -Anthony J. D'Angelo

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"At times life may be confusing, other times simple, but it is always beautiful, although we dont always realize it." -Mike James

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"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." -Abraham Lincoln

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"Age doesn't protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age." -Jeanne Moreau

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"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." -Francis Bacon

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"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise." -Todd Smollett

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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement, it is the most potent instrument of action." -Mahatma Gandhi

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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato

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"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." -Norman Vincent Pale

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"When you have completed 95% of your journey, you are halfway there."

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"If you look for the bad in man, you will surely find it." -I think it's from the movie 'Polyanna'...

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"If you love life, life will love you back."

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"A woman is like a teabag. You don't know how strong it is until it gets into hot water." -Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." -Henry Ford

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"If men and women are in chains, anywhere in the world, the freedom is endangered everywhere." -John F. Kennedy

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"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress....Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure....Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." -Thomas Alva Edison

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge

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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes a human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning." -Maya Angelou

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"Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it." -D.H. Lawrence

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"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil." -Elie Weisel

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"Those who walk with God always reach their destination."

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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." -C.S. Lewis

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"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." -Jane Austen

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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before." -Mae West

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"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." -Goethe

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"If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings, including this one."

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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." -J.M. Barrie

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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the Best." -Frank Zappa

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"Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein

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"You can never discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

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"A thing that you sincerely believe in cannot be wrong, if you know it is right." -D.H. Lawrence

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." -Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" -Henry David Thoreau

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"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you, continue to be my friend as you will always find me yours." -Ludwig van Beethoven

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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." -Luciano de Crescenzo

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"It may be that those who do most, dream most." -Stephen Lealock

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"An original writer is not one whom imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate." -Chateaubriand

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

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead." -Louis May Alcott

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"If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up." -Gervase Peterson

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"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination, living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be." -Willy Wonka

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

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"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everyone else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -E.E. Cummings

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"Once you are real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." -The Velveteen Rabbit

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"Each betrayal begins with trust, every man returns to dust..." -Phish ("Farmhouse")

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"Great sex is great, but bad sex is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich." -Billy Idol

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"The object of the artist is the creation of what is beautiful. What is beautiful is another question." -A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man bu James Joyce

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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." -Charles Bukowski

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"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color." -James Abbot McNeill Whistler

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“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours for one lone soul another lonely soul, each choosing each through all the weary hours, and meeting strangely at one sudden goal, then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers. Into one beautiful perfect whole; and life's long night is ended, and the way lies open onward to eternal day.” –Edwin Arnold

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“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.” –Mother Theresa

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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” –Neil Gaiman

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The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, the azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No, it was not their colors: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and color? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?” –James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

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“Why don’t you write books people can read?” –Nora Joyce, to her husband James

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“—You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.” –James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

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“If you have [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.” –James M. Barrie

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“Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own (will), is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” –Apostle Paul

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"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have arisen." -Tolstoy

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"Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child." -Cicero

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"As if I could live on words and dreams and a million screams, oh how I need a hand in mine to feel..." -Weezer

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"I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of the impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of the hate and evil, and this can be done through love." -Martin Luther King

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"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -Aldous Huxley

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"Art is innate in the artist, like an instinct that seizes and makes a tool out of the human being. The thing in the final analysis that wills something in him is not he, the personal man, but the aim of the art." -Carl Jung

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"The artist is essentially the instrument, and he stands below his work, for which reason we should never expect from him an interpretation of his own work. He achieved his highest with his composition." -Carl Jung

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." -Carl Jung

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"God has created a world big enough for all the lives He wishes to be born. It is only out hearts that are not big enough to want them and accept them. If all the money that is being spent on finding ways to kill people was used instead to feed them and house them and educate them - how beautiful that would be. We are too often afraid of the sacrifices we might have to make. But where there is love, there is always sacrifice. And when we love until it hurts, there is joy and peace." -Mother Theresa

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"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on." - Albert Einstein

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"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. -Nietzche

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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." -Frank Zappa

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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William A. Ward

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"Frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know. . . I think the way he has responded to al-Qaeda, both before 9/11 by doing nothing, and by what he's done after 9/11 has made us less safe, absolutely. I think he's done a terrible job on the war against terrorism." -Richard Clarke, Republican former counter-terrorism advisor to Bush -- yeah, I couldn't help but put this one in. :)

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"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him." -Nathaniel Branden

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"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." -Henry Van Dyke

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"Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are." -Nietzsche

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"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." -Ninon de L'Enclos

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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

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"Music is therefore simply the science of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony." -Plato, The Symposium

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"--it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings;mostpeople are snobs." -E.E. Cummings

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

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"Doing the right thing makes you a SUPERSTAR!" -Jem PSAs

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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour." -Robert Frost

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"Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now . Happily some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them-if you want to . Just as someday if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you . And it isn't education . It's history . It's poetry." -J.D. Salinger

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"Judging from picture books, apparently heaven is a partly cloudy place." -Rilo Kiley

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"We might be laughin' a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one." -Billy Joel

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"Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves." -James Joyce, Ulysses

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