Let's not confuse stability with stagnation.
--Mary Jean Letendre

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin

(said in a book review) This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.
--Dorothy Parker

All the world's a cage.
--Heanne Phillips

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
--Joan Rivers

Why is is that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're Schitzophrenic?
--Lily Tomlin

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
--Ernestine Ulmer

If you don't show up at a party people will assume you're fat.
--Stephanie Vanderkellen

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that bringeth peace.
--Hellen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and sadness, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
--Helen Keller

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
--Lesley Boone

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
--Jane Wagner

Quod me nutruit me destruit
(What nourishes me also destroys me)

When you love a person, you are giving to them.

Love is having the power to see more than what meets the eye.

You never lose by loving. You can always lose by holding back.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
--Simone Weil

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
--Jessamyn West

I rely on my personality for birth control.
--Liz Whinston

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
--Angela Monet

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
--Goethe

I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid?
--Melinda Shore

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
--Oscar Wilde

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
--Kurt Vonnegut

He couldn't get a clue if he stripped naked, rubbed himself with clue musk, went to the middle of the clue breeding grounds at the height of clue breeding season when it was full of horny clues and did the clue mating dance for days.
--Anon

"Starving the flesh wastes the spirit"

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
--John Stuart Mill

Our predicament is not the difficulty of finding happiness but the difficulty of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
--Michael Oakeshott

Optimists live longer, pessimists merely feel as though they do.

Argue for you limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
-- Richard Bach

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-- Marie Curie

Not until we are lost can we begin to find ourselves.
--Henry David Thoreau

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he is sure of.
--Bruce Springsteen

A dream is in the mind of the believer, and in the hands of the doer.

You are not given a dream, without being given the power to make it come true.

Does fashion matter? Always - 'though not quite so much after death.
--Joan Rivers

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleonor Roosevelt

It appears to me impossible that I cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment a spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than just a dream.
--Mary Wollstonecraft

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
--Erma Brombeck

I'm a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
--Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?
--Zsa Zsa Gabor

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
--Rita Mae Brown

Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
--George Eliot

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
--Emily Dickinson

I feel no need for any faith other than my faith in human beings.
--Pearl S. Buck

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel

Life is change: Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
--Karen Kaiser

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
--Dorothea Dix

Winning may not be everything but losing has little to reccommend it.
--Dianne Feinstein

I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
--Madonna

It's a great feeling to be powerful. I've been striving for it all my life.
I think it's the quest of every human being - power.
--Madonna

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
--Oprah Winfrey

You can't be brave if you've ony had good things happen.

Heal the past; live the present; dream the future.

Take each day as you find it
If things go wrong, don't mind it
For each day behind it
Leaves a chance to start anew.
--Gertrude Ellgas

Do not start today, with the broken pieces of yesterday.

Destiny is not a matter of chance.
It is a matter of choice:
it is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
--Anne Frank

Mistakes are not intended to down us, rather they make us stronger.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or appeal.
--Marilyn Ferguson

'I always wanted you to admire my fasting,' said the hunger artist.
'We do admire it,' said the overseer, affably.
'But you shouldn't admire it.' said the hunger artist.
-- Franz Kafka, 'A Hunger Artist'

Like prisoners everywhere, all I have left is the power to refuse.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
--Ayn Rand

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it's not possible to find it elsewhere.
--Agnes Repplier

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
--Jill Ruckelshaus

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
--Muriel Rukeyser

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
--George Sand

I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
--Patricia Shroeder

I was cold
I was burnin up
A child
And endlessly weaving garments
For the moon with my tears

I found God in myself
And I loved her
I loved her fiercely.
--Ntozake Shange

Loneliness is the poverty of self, solitude is the richness of self.
--May Sarton

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
--Alice Walker

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
--Mamie Van Doven

Just remember, we're all in this alone.
--Lily Tomlin

I'm unique; just like everyone else.

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

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
--Simone Weil

Life is the only real counsellor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become part of the moral tissue.
--Edith Wharton