A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
I won't eat anything green.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
It's better to burn out than fade away.
Kurt Cobain
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Rather be dead than cool.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Nelson Mandela
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
"Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others."
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
"Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it."
"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is out light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world and there is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that others won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some, it is in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer."
"Appearances matter — and remember to smile."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
"(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"It always seems impossible until its done."
"Quitting is leading too."
"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise."
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation"
"Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport."
"Nothing is black or white."
"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom."
"Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves."
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
"We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. "
Nelson Mandela
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
"Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others."
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
"Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it."
"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is out light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world and there is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that others won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some, it is in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer."
"Appearances matter — and remember to smile."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
"(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"It always seems impossible until its done."
"Quitting is leading too."
"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise."
"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation"
"Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport."
"Nothing is black or white."
"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom."
"Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves."
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
"We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. "
Nelson Mandela
Friday, August 21, 2009
Sarah Dessen
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens, accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment"
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Leo Buscaglia
"The person who risks nothing does nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave. He has forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free."
Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
Louis de Bernières
"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to make love every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Anaïs Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
J.K. Rowling
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling
Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Oscar Wilde
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Assorted wisdom ....
"Love is irrational, I remind myself. The more you love someone, the less sense anything makes."
Stephenie Meyer
"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
W.C. Fields
"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
C.S. Lewis
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston S. Churchill
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Stephen King
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
May Sarton
"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Mark Twain
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
Alan Moore
"Some books should be tasted
some devoured,
but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
Cornelia Funke
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
J.D. Salinger
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
Joan Crawford
"When you can live forever what do you live for?"
Stephenie Meyer
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
Mother Teresa
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
"Life sucks, and then you die."
Stephenie Meyer
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"We love the things we love for what they are."
Robert Frost
"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
Lemony Snickett
"You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence."
Stephenie Meyer
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, for lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, for a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, for Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, for poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn
"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 errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
Stephenie Meyer
"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
W.C. Fields
"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
C.S. Lewis
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston S. Churchill
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
Stephen King
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
May Sarton
"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Mark Twain
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
Alan Moore
"Some books should be tasted
some devoured,
but only a few
should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
Cornelia Funke
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
J.D. Salinger
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
Joan Crawford
"When you can live forever what do you live for?"
Stephenie Meyer
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
Mother Teresa
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
William Shakespeare
"Life sucks, and then you die."
Stephenie Meyer
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney
"We love the things we love for what they are."
Robert Frost
"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
Lemony Snickett
"You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence."
Stephenie Meyer
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, for lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, for a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, for Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, for poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn
"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 errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Douglas Adams
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Monday, August 17, 2009
Jodi Picoult
"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
aimgirl
" I said that I don't need you
But I'm a liar
I swear I do
I do
Strip away vanity
Just as you consume me
Broken smile, starless sky
Save it all,
Say goodbye ... "
aimgirl
But I'm a liar
I swear I do
I do
Strip away vanity
Just as you consume me
Broken smile, starless sky
Save it all,
Say goodbye ... "
aimgirl
Haruki Murakami
"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that" he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else .... "
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Dean Young
" ... but nothing can be taken back,
not the leaves by the trees, the rain
by the clouds. You want to take back
the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel
remains in the wound, some mud."
Dean Young
not the leaves by the trees, the rain
by the clouds. You want to take back
the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel
remains in the wound, some mud."
Dean Young
Sunday, August 16, 2009
On anticipation
"She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied."
Jack Whyte
"Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming."
Nicholas Sparks
Jack Whyte
"Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming."
Nicholas Sparks
Jonathan Hull
"I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing."
Jonathan Hull
Jonathan Hull
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