If you never say hello, you never have to say goodbye.
- Glen Yarborough

If the rose at noon has lost the beauty it had at dawn, the beauty it had then was real. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask for anything to last. But surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
- Buddha

A smart person knows all the rules so he can break them wisely.
-Lubna Azni

SIN: Self Inflicted Nonsense.
- Eric Butterworth

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All Chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good.
- Alexander Pope

All the Gods are one God, and all the Goddesses are one Goddess...and to every man his own truth, and the God within.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

Where no light cannot enter; a shadow cannot pass.
- Vampire Journals

Faith without experience to support it is merely blind hope, and blindness will never lead to truth.
- Christopher Pike, The Star Group

You want more proof, I know. But proof is a quality demanded of the intellect. The heart does not require it; the heart knows.
- Christopher Pike, The Starlight Crystal

The big mystery will not be solved until the day we die. We have our stories, our dreams, our beliefs, but until then everything is just speculation.
- Christopher Pike, The Midnight Club

Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

We are all arrogant and conceited about running down other people's ghosts, but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversation range than saying what we know.
- Cullen Hightower

True words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not true.
- The Tao Te Ching verse 81 (in part)

You cannot know true joy when you are bound by desire.
- Christopher Pike, The Starlight Crystal

Along the path there is free will. Once the goal is reached the understanding dawns that everything was destined. But a man or a woman cannot pretend to be at the goal while still on the path. For you, at this time, you must act as if you have free will.
- Christopher Pike, The Starlight Crystal

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- George Sheekan

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
- Barbara Johnson

I have lost my first love and my second love, I have lost the meaning of life, but now I am here to find it and this time I'll make it much better.
- HOZ

Real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities.
- Jim Morrison

The reason there's a population explosion is because it's so much fun to light the fuse.
- Unknown

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boasts not to resist both wind and tide."
- Henry IV, Shakespeare

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
- Life's Little Instructions

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- Life's Little Instructions

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Life's Little Instructions

Life is just a dream on the way to death.
- Sarah, The Crow: City of Angels

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
- Ivy Baker

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."
- Gaston Bachelad

Read as you taste fruit, savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
- Holbrook Jackson

I am a part of everything I have read.
- John Kieran

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West

Distance nor time can separate souls that refuse to be divided.
- Unknown

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Unknown

To love is to admire with the heart. To admire is to love with the mind.
- Theophile Gautier

We do not what we ought,
What we ought not, we do,
And lean upon the thought
That Chance will bring us through.
- Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna

Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen. (Inter os atque offam multa intervenire posse.)
- Cato the Censor, "On the Improper Election Aediles" (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae Bk. xiii, ch. 18, sec. 1)

Abscence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. (L'abscence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; it eteint le petit, il allume le grand.)
- Comte De Bussy-Rabutin, Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules "Maximes d'Amours"

One joy dispels a hundred cares.
- Confucius

Prevention is better than cure.
- Erasmus

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health,
and quiet breathing.
- John Keats, Endymion Bk. i, I

We do not inherit the earth from out parents. We borrow it from our children.
- Native American proverb

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

What I have learned is but a handful of earth, what is left unlearned is the Earth itself.
- Tamil proverb

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it.
- Unknown

Find one thing you do extremely well.
- Unknown

Simple solutions seldom are.
- Unknown

Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
- Unknown

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- Unknown

The expert in anything was once a beginner.
- Unknown

The most important word: "We." The least important word: "I."
- Unknown

We see possibilities in others, but do we ever dream of the possibilities within ourselves?
- Unknown

Winners concentrate on winning. Losers concentrate on getting by.
- Unknown

The Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is the absence of a frame of mind.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wildflower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour
-Blake

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
- Lao-tzu

The truth is out there.
- The X Files

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

We will either find a way, or make one.
- Hannibal

Do, or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda

It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose.
- Capt. Jean Luc Picard

The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own.
- Lao-Tzu

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

Batteries not included.

Scientific theories are judged by the coherence they lend to our natural experience and the simplicity with which they do so. The grand principle of the heavens balances on the razor's edge of truth.

Heaven lasts long, and Earth abides
What is the secret of their durability?
Is it because they do not live for themselves
That they endure so long?
- Lao-Tzu

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?

Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without understanding no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
- Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under. I love those who do not know how to live, for they are those who cross over.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

And when he has brought forth and reared this perfect virtue, he shall be called the friend of god, and if ever it is given to man to put on immortality, it shall be given to him.
- Plato, The Symposium

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
- Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra