Quotes!    

There is nothing more wonderful than the smell of life; take it in; let it fill the places inside that are empty, because more often than not, the emptiness you feel isn't something you're missing, it's something you've forgotten.

"Oh God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

The meaning of life is in the journey...

The best years of your life are always ahead of you...

My Contributions:  

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depths, where few are willing to search for it." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goether

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism" - Tim

"A hero is someone who creates safe places for others."  - Dr. Stone

"Joy does not simply just happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day..." ~ Henri Nouwen

Sometimes you have to look hard at a person and realize that he's trying as best as he can, to find his way, just as you are... - OGP

That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. - Albom

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. - William Shakespeare

To love someone is to be the only one to see a miracle invisible to others. - Francois Mauriac

Love, if you have it, you don't need anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. - James M. Barrie

Love, from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize, protect and comfort each other. - Han Suyin

A kindness put off until tomorrow may become only a bitter regret.

Time flies, suns rise and shadows fall. Let time go by. Love is forever.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. - Jean Paul Richter

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Kisses kept are wasted, love is meant to be tasted. - Edmund Vance

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. - Antoine Exupery

For love is but the heart's immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven. - Henry van Dyke

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, the hope in tomorrow, and the joy in a heart.

Don't be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. - Lubbock

Let all your words be kind, and you will always hear kind echoes.

Love is not about opening old wounds, it's about healing them.

Love is a feeling of beauty one person can bring to your heart, and a feeling of loneliness deep down inside whenever you must be apart.

Never go too long without holding hands.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. - George MacDonald

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. - G.W. Leibniz

"I'm sorry" is another way to say "I love you."

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - Chesterton

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason. - French Proverb

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. - Ernest Hemingway

Love is friendship caught on fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. it settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

One of life's greatest pleasures is growing old with someone you love.

If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. - Corinthians 13:7

What is love... But a friend who has remained beside me and never once removed his hand. - Hugh Prather

If two people love each other, let not a single instant wedge itself between then, it grows- it become a month, a year, a century; it becomes too late. - Jean Giraudoux

Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned. - William Veats.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

When life feels like a roller coaster, you just need someone to hold on to.

Love is, about all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. - Longfellow

Love is time and space measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. - Vincent Van Gogh

"Religions have often been stymied and corrupted by their claim to the possession of a Truth above life.  The world is desperately in need of religious traditions that work their truths through life, rather than above it, insides its complexities, and not blindly mouthing simplicities on the sides.  Access to an unmediated, superhuman Truth, a perspective that transcends the limitations of human subjectivity, is not available to flesh and blood.  The truth is worked out best through the earthly realities of life, in an open conversation." - S. Greenberg

"It's possible to have more than one purpose in life, and you can do them together or sequentially. It really doesn't matter as long as you are focused and pursuing them versus chasing other unimportant things -- like a job title that will impress people you don't really care about, a top-paying job that is uninspiring or a dream that is someone else's and not your own." - CNN.com

"It is not knowing, that eats at your confidence and carves the cleft in the world into which all of your faith falls." - William Norwich

"It does not do to dwell on dreams Harry, and forget to live...  Doing so gives us neither knowledge nor truth... Men have wasted away before a dream, and even gone mad..." - Harry Potter I

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices..."  - Harry Potter II

"Find someone worth settling down with, and never let them go...." - The Italian Job

"However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists.  Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe can exist.  If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God." - Stephen Hawking:  A Brief History of Time

"You will be remembered by the choices you make."  - Unknown

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.  Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.  Just walk beside me and be my friend."  - Albert Camus

"Ultimate love requires complete faith." - Footloose

"We are what we repeatedly do" - Aristotle

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around" - Henry David Thoreau

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy." - Dante

"If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."  - Albert Einstein

"If we accept that there is neither a heaven or a hell, we renounce the idea of any power beyond the perception of science.   We then must accept responsibility for all we do in this life for there will be no form of atonement afterwards." - Dominic Webb

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

"And let your best be for your friend.  If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.  For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?  Seek him always with hours to live."  - Kahil Gibran

"A smile costs nothing but means much. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as no one needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give." - Unknown

"Players don't reform, they adapt..."  - How To Be a Player

"To be alive is to always be searching for that perfect piece of the world." - Unknown

What Is Success?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is success?
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 bit 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 to have succeeded.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errors and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and short comings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring reality, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory or defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt

"When do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in himself 'cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is."  - A Raisin in the Sun

"With reason in charge, every human being is free, to a very great extent, to control his own life - not to make himself taller or shorter, but to raise or lower his stature none the less. Not to choose his allotment of brains, but to make use of the gifts he has received. Not to choose his parents that are to give him birth, but to choose what to do with the infinite number of natural endowments he has received.  His behavior and ultimately his happiness are in no one else’s hands but his own." - Not Sure

"Everything you EAT. Everything you SEE. Everything you FEEL. Everything you SMELL. Everything you LOVE. Everything you DO. Everything you THINK. Everything you TRY. Everything you DRINK. Everything you SING. Everything you EXPERIENCE. Everything you SAY. Everything you INFLUENCE. Everything you CHANGE. Everything you OWN. Everything you PLAY.

                                        Is all your life will ever be. "  - Poster I saw once...

Steve's Contributions:

Run far
Run fast
Don't fall down
And if you do
Get back up

Colleen's Contributions:

"...when you're a kid you have this picture of how your life is gonna be, and it never crosses your mind that it's not gonna end up like that..."

Ryan's Contributions:

...as you could also chose to just live instead of over thinking every little thing to the point of paralysis...

"You can have a place for someone in your heart without having a place for them in your life."

Seth's Contributions:

"Spooning leads to forking."  - Seth

...but material possessions don't have hearts... - Seth

Kirk's Contributions:

"I just wanted to say hey, hope you had a good day, we actually went to the zoo today for ecology lab and we each had to choose a particular monkey to observe for an hour and a half, so after I observed mine for a while the zoo guy told me that the monkey's name was Donny, which I found to be rather ironic yet appropriate, hahaha. But it also turns out that he is the dominant male of the group even though he is one of the smallest, yet he is one of the smartest which I thought was interesting. Anyways, talk to you later if you are around." - Kirk

Jim's Contributions:

"If the full force of their attention is akin to a laser whose full force is burning up the object of its attention then I guess they should learn to fracture their attention so as to stop doing that - in which case they need to just be told nicely because they might not be aware of it.  If they react poorly then they need to get a life... - Jim

"Either way, we have to be sure our compass is functioning properly and that we've sighted the right landmark. Or be content to stay lost in the woods, which is fine while you're hunting morels and it's bright and sunny, but when the clouds grows dark and ominous and a tornado drops from the sky you have to make a run for it and hopefully you know which way to go."  - Jim

"When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful." - Augustine

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato

The Draw of the Night

It summons: it calls to me - Silence.
Darkness wraps me, embraces, envelops me.
Methodically, rhythmically, it pulls me.
I run.
Chill, the evening flows over me, through me
I breathe and experience. I live.
Heedlessly, but not recklessly, I run : for God is with me
He always is, but here, here it is different - palpable.
He surges forward.
I run to meet him, but he never left me.
With each drop of sweat the day's weight falls.
I am one with the evening - one with God.

Jim Anderson
October 7, 2004, evening

"When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard, nor welcomed; but when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak, remembering that we were never meant to survive at all." - Andre de Lorde

"By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." - Bible

False humility is worse than arrogant pride. - Jim

Faith is the substance of things hoped for. - Jim

Few of life's difficulties cannot be fixed by a good back massage. - Jim

Labels are adopted by those too weak or unwilling to define themselves. - Jim

"Nous sommes si accoutumés à nous déguiser aux autres qu'enfin nous nous déguisons à nous-mêmes."

"We are so accustomed to concealing ourselves from others that in the end we conceal ourselves from ourselves." - La Rochefoucauld, 119

"All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose." - Augustine

"It's kind of a way of turning spare time into something tangible..."  - Jim...  Perhaps that's what life is all about?  (7/2/2004)

Jason's Contributions:

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. To love someone is to see the face of God."

"You will meet many people, some will change your life, some will enhance it, some may damage it...  But make the most of it..."

Why does life have to be so confusing?  => "Because men and women are involved and there is nothing more chaotic then the human brain."

Josie's Contributions:

"… falling in love is not a choice; however, it is very important to note that staying in love is a choice. The love boat will surely sink in the waves of emotion! Commitment through thick and thin makes the love last. Relationships reveal more of our own issues than anything else, and staying committed to that person throughout the highs and lows will not only create a better relationship, but a better us."

Life is what we make of it in our minds. It is complicated if we think so. It is simple if we believe. It is wonderful if we let it be. - Josie

Wendy's Contributions: 

Why does life have to be so confusing? => "I don't think ANY of our lives make sense. That's a question I think EVERYONE asks.. You're not alone...  You're not alone..."

Lisa's Contributions: 

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

Laura's Contributions: 

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. - Maya Angelou

Mom's Contributions: 

"We have lost putting our heart into everything we do, in trying to do it all..."  - Mom

Kevin's Contributions: 

"No point exists in unraveling the complexity of knowing who or what to believe in until you FIRST learn to both know and believe in yourself. Only then will the rest of the world start making any sense."  (05/02/2004) - Kevin Martin

"The ultimate goal would be to have raised two children and being able to retreat to this farm as an old man knowing that I was loved and gave love in return, leaving the world a much finer place..."  - Kevin Martin

Steven's Contributions: 

"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Megan's Contributions:

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

Aaron's Contributions: 

"Why do you have to be so hard on yourself?  Enjoy life! I had the best time tonight cause I was with the people I feel the most comfortable with.  They don't care what I am, they just like me for who I am!  :-D"  (5/4/2004)  - UIAaron03

"Do you believe one can change their own destiny?" "I believe one does what he can until his destiny is revealed." - The Last Samari

"All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal." - Ayn Rand

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential." ~ Rusty Berkus

Sanjida's Contributions: 

"Always be like a duck: remain calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath!"

Donny's Morning Thought: maybe its just that youthful idealism that we carry, wherever it is from, that makes us aspire for God-like (or parent-like, or grownup-like) qualities which we are taught are "perfect." or perhaps some of us were reprimanded and as a result, fear failure, so we adore the opposite, perfection. and also, why do you assume we all strive for perfection. what if only the 1.5% of us higher ed folks strive for perfect and most other people in the world strive for other ends. finally, what if things are already perfect for the time being, and each moment of progress is another new phase of perfect (contentment, I guess?).

"Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." ~ Ranier Marie Rilke

"In my opinion, you can't find contentment. its not something you find. you either choose it or you fight it and its right there in that moment. "

"Get involved! The world is run by those who show up." ~ Unknown

"if you're feeling low and lost today, you're probably doing too much again. you spend all your hours just rushing around. do you have a little time, to have a little time, for me. if you should stop for a while, you would find me standing by, overwhelmed at the sight of your life. I'd like to hold you still, remind you of all you've missed. why do you still run when you could walk with me? life will pass you by when you move this quickly."  ~Dido

"You my friend, I will defend. And if we change, well I'll love you anyway."  - Alice in Chains

"what do you do with someone who has nothing positive to say about life? is it really possible to help them see the good in it by listening or by offering inspiration? or is a conviction to unhappiness only surmountable on one's own?" - Sanjida

Brian Hoppe's Contributions: 

"I had a blast tonight...and it was without you......  I wish you could do the same thing..."

"Hey...its a greedy business...but somebody's gotta do it...and who better than for it to be me..."

"Words to live by:  Partying that much and sleeping at unhealthy times will certainly have an effect on your life. You will become popular, leading to more connections, a good job, and lots of money. As you can see, more beer and less sleep equals more money. Scientists call the Theory of Being Totally Awesome."

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. " 

"But today is not our destination or ambition. It's not our journey's end. It's a meeting place. A site from which we'll all head out, once again, on different roads...Life is speeding past you. Are you going to rally and catch it, or are you going to be left in the dust?"  --  Graduation 2002

Malcom X once said "to examine life is painful, and to do it requires great courage."--in response to that, I believe that's why so many people are silent, and don't ever take the plunge into examining themselves....because it often hurts, and is painful, and a lot less mental anguish if left alone.  Just a thought... something I heard while in class this morning...

"Excellence is the result of caring more than others; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible." - Brian's Friend

"A strong man may not be able to change the circumstances, but he compels them to contribute to his life.  He cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can set his sails so it will carry him toward his destination."  - ????

"I shall pass through this world but once.  Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.  Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Brian's Friend

"Just because swans mate for life, I don't think it's that big of a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks that much better than the one you've got so why not mate for life. " - Alec

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." - Jillian

Kim's Contributions: 

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation" - Kim's sister

"A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope.  A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.  The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Audrey, Thank You!"

Pey-Hua's Contributions:

"It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare." - Unknown

Jess's Contributions:

 "As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight w/ your best friend and you might even fall in love w/ them. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry b/c time is passing too fast and you'll eventually lose somebody you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt b/c every 60 sec. you spend angry or upset is a min. of happiness you'll never get back." - Unknown

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."  -W. Somerset Maugham

"To realize The value of a parent: Ask someone who doesn't have one. To realize The value of four years: Ask a graduate. To realize The value of one year: Ask a student who has failed a final exam. To realize The value of nine months: Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born. To realize The value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. To realize The value of one week: Ask a worker who didn't get paid. To realize The value of one hour: Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. To realize The value of one minute: Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane. To realize The value of one-second: Ask a person who has survived an accident. To realize the value of a friend: Lose one. Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have." - Unknown

"Nothing ever works out as planed, so why bother counting on it to, I guess... Just be happy with what you do have.  Like Tinkerbelle; think happy thoughts" - Jess

"I figure one day everything will work out, until then I might as well have some fun..." - Jess

"Its life, and its everywhere all the time spinning you this way and that, I have just been thinking about this year, what I have learned, how I have changed, and I am good but I can not be sure if I am good, only time will give me that answer because who knows what's around the corner and if I really am good again, but I'm pretty sure I am!"  - Jess

Jonny P's Contributions: 

"Every now and then when the world that we're livin in seems crazy, you gladly pull me and carry me through.
No one in the world has ever done what you did for me.  And I'd be sad and lonely if there were no yoooouuuu!"

"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."  ~ Eleanor Hamilton

"Am I missin' something real...  Or was it all just an illusion"

Adam's Contributions: 

"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did."

Jen's Contributions: 

"People will forget what you said, and they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel" -- unknown

Kara's Contributions: 

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."  - Unknown

"Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they are meant to be there; they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or help you figure out who you are."  - Unknown

Michelle's Contributions:

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."  -Steven Wright

"Go to the people, live among them, love them, serve them, start with what they know, build on what they have, and when the best leaders leave, the people will say: 'We have done it ourselves.' " - Lao Tsu

Kristie's Contributions:

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."  - Alan Kay

""Turns out not where, but who you're with that really matters... If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you're missing all the rest." - Best of What's Around, DMB

Steph's Contributions: 

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you'll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey." - Princess Diaries

Jacque's Contributions: 

"Hmm you getting married...  I would be happy to see the day that you actually trust someone else enough... And are amused by someone else enough to be with them forever..."  - Jacque

Carly's Contributions: 

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies" - Unknown

Phil's Contributions:

"Who knows where thoughts come from, they just appear!"

"A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat those who can do them absolutely no good." -Unknown

Kristin's Contributions:

"Nice people make life worth living...  :-)"

Matt Ryan's Contributions:

"Patience isn't a virtue - Patience is for people who can't get what they want right away!"

"If you don't like your job, you don't strike. You just go in everyday and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way." 

Rocky's Contributions:

"True Love is Friendship set on Fire" - Rocky

"Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points. " - Bruce Lee

"This is your life, and it is ending one minute at a time" - Fight Club

"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him." - Chinese Proverb

Sean's Contributions:

"Only trust yourself!"

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything"

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length"

Ali's Contributions:

"To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - William Blake (4/23/2004)

"I guess you move on because you want to;  life isn't going to wait for you;  you can always wish you were at miami again, but even if you were here this year, you'd see that so much has changed;  it's never going to be what it was;  so you appreciate what you have when you have it;  you have an amazing opportunity before you right now;  med school has to be incredibly interesting;  and you're in a new city that you get to go out and explore;  then you're just wasting the opportunities that you have now;  it's all about the attitude that you take;  if you sit around having expectations for what you want your life to be like at this very moment, you miss out on all of the great things that your life is."  - Ali (03-07-2004)

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

"Compromise is built out of the strength and open-mindedness to admit that your ideas and opinions may be wrong." - Unknown

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."  - Henry David Thoreau

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."  - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't ever let somebody be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option." - Zimm

Mike's Contributions:

PkingDuck4: our heads tell us to say f*** off; but our hearts say hold on to him...

"The key to finding happiness in life is finding someone worth making happy. Once you find someone or something that has priority over your well being, only then can you experience the true beauty of life" -Mike

Andrew's Contributions:

"Anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared then in being loved." -Machiavelli "Love endures by a bond which men, being scoundrels, may break whenever it serves their advantage to do so; but fear is supported by the dread of pain, which is ever present."

"A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

It may be readily be conceived that if men passionately bent upon physical gratifications desire eagerly, they are also easily discouraged; as their ultimate object is to enjoy, the means to reach that object must be prompt and easy or the trouble of acquiring the gratification would be greater than the gratification itself.  Their prevailing frame of mind, then, is at once ardent and relaxed, violent and enervated. Death is often less dreaded than perseverance in continuous efforts to one end.  

Josh's Contributions:

"The only thing that matters is how that someone makes you feel" - Josh

Dustin's Contributions:

"If you figure out that you don't need to figure it all out, you are finally getting your stuff together."  - Jimmy Buffet

Sara's Contributions:

"What would you go wild for?" - _____

"LOL, there ain't a person in the world that knows the answer to that question! And when you find someone that does....MARRY THEM! (Do you think what I think?)"  - Sara

Noah's Contributions:

"This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can not then be false to any other man."

Moon's Contributions:

"Everyday, people are becoming more like themselves, more of who they really are deep down inside...  Whether that person conflicts with what you want him/her to be doesn't matter, whether their heart is made of gold or stone in the end, isn't the point...  For no matter the person, the "true" self cannot be fixed or masked, for it grows and unravels with every breath."

SubProfile's Contributions:

"Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water"  - W. C. Fields

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance" - Anatole France

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over" - Ambrose Bierce

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking" - Martin H. Fischer

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." - Robert Oppenheimer

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."  - Oscar Wilde 

"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs."  - Toledo Blade Newspaper

"There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."  - Dorothy Parker