All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.--Jean De La Bruyere

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in restrospection.--Anais Nin

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.--on a bumper sticker

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance, a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.--Augusta E. Rundel

It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too.--Charlie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

This moment... is so much bigger than me.--Halle Berry, accepting the Best Actress Oscar in 2002

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are; by which we can see life as a whole: by which and which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.--Oscar Wilde

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts, uncritically--to those who hardly think of us in return.--T. H. White

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.--Adlai Stevenson

Art is a gift, and should be used, not to recreate what you see, but to recreate what you imagine.--anonymous

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?--Maria Mitchell

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.--Groucho Marx

It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.--Plato

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear.--Stephen King

The problem is that God gave men both a penis and a brain and not enough blood to run both at the same time.--Robin Williams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.--Douglas Adams.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.--John Ciardi

Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning. And company doesn't always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts And presents aren't promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up And your eyes ahead. With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child. And you learn to build all your roads on today. Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans And future has a way of falling apart in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong And you really do have worth. And you learn, with every goodbye you learn...--Veronica A. Shoffstall