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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell." Sean Ningen
"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." Jim Fiebig
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." Albert Camus
"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." J.D. Salinger
"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips." Violette Leduc
"Sex is emotion in motion." Mae West
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." Albert Einstein
"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself." Paracelsus
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul." Marcus Aurelius
"For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible..." Nietzsche
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." Adolph Hitler
"I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it."
Amy Lowell
"Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other." Rene Yasenek
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good." Steven Wright
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." Janis Joplin
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people." Richard Armour
"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." Robert Fulghum
"We have art in order not to die of the truth." Nietzsche
"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." Percy Bysshe Shelley
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." Samuel Johnson
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." Henry David Thoreau
"Without music, life would be a mistake" Nietzsche
"Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody." J.D. Salinger
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." Albert Camus
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"Only the shallow know themselves." Oscar Wilde
"...There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside." Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Twenty years of schoolin'/ and they put you on the day shift." Bob Dylan
"Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." Nietzsche
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." Carl Jung
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." Albert Einstein
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo da Vinci
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." Alan Alda
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." Sylvia Plath