Quotes and Ideals

 
 


 

Dream as if you'll live forever
Live as if you'll die today
~James Dean~
 


 


 

If your mind isn't opened,
Keep your mouth shut....
-Sue Grafton



A poem  begins with a lump in the throat
      ~Robert Frost~



Beauty in not in the face
Beauty is a light in the heart
          ~Kahlil Gibran~



Yield to temptation
    It may not pass your way again
                ~Robert Heinlein~



To be nobody but yourself
   in a world which is doing 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~
 


Humankind has not
  woven the web of life
    We are but one thread within it
      Whatever we do to the web
     we do to ourselves
       All things are bound together
      all things connect
           ~Chief Seattle~



Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong.
Love is the only thing that lets us see each other
with the remotest accuracy.
-Martha Beck



The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself!
-Steve Martin



If you can't say anything nice,
don't say anything at all...
-Thumper's Mom



"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
     - Emile Zola (1840-1902)



"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
     - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)



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



"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fearof death,
so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

                   -Tecumseh, Shawnee
 



"In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world."

          - Lame Deer, Minnicoujou
 



What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle