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ll of us are travelers lost,
our tickets arranged at a cost
unknown but beyond our means.

--Dean Koontz

e're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

--John M. Ford

y speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

--Sir Julian Sorrell Huxley

he pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

--Oscar Wilde

he cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

--Ellen Parr

umor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

--Langston Hughes

an is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

--William Hazlitt

he most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

--Theodore M. Hesburgh

friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

--unknown

fter a while, you learn the subtle differences between holding a hand and chaining a soul; and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security; and you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child...you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong, and you really do have worth.

And you learn and learn. With every good-bye you learn.

--Veronica Shoffstall

Thanks to 'Zendam'.

o love is to admire with the heart...to admire is to love with the mind.

--Theophile Ganlier

nger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

--Robert G. Ingersoll

t requires more courage to suffer than to die.

--Napoleon Bonaparte

he fear of death keeps us from living, not dying.

--Paul C. Roud

've learned much from disease that a healthy life could never teach me.

--Goethe

n Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.

--Jose Simon

here are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

--Edith Wharton

n the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see--and what we see is life.

--Robert Penn Warren

t is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

--Marcel Proust

hat we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

--Edgar Z. Friedenber

our strength is measured in how you confront your weakness.

--from the television show Picket Fences

hen I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs.

I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman--whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of perceived obstacles.

Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down.

--Pierce Vincent Eckhart

desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

--John le Carre'

any things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed; his blood is being made; his mind is being developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today.

--Gabriela Mistral

aising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

--Ed Asner

wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne,

in a letter to his wife, Sophia

eligion is a candle inside a multi-colored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

--Modammed Neguib

Borrowed from the page of Pierre Malraison. Thanks, Lao Tzu!

nly Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, & fat.

--Alex Levine

f the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

--Robert Cringely/InfoWorld

ll I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

--Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

he difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

--Earle Hitchner

n matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

--Thomas Jefferson

e are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good person and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

--William James

he best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

--William Wordsworth

f it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

--Marcus Aurelius

he only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being honest all the time.

--Tom Hanks

xperience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

--Judith Stern

on't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

--Pancho Villa

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