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| stop and think: truths |
| 1 sometimes it rains on the just. i believe that. sometimes it rains on the unjust. i believe that, too. but i also believe that sometimes it just rains. neither god nor justice nor belief has anything to do with it. 2the difficulty isn't to die for someone, but to find someone worth dying for. 3 from the outside you can never understand it; from the inside you can never explain it. 4 i cried because i had no shoes. then i met a man who had no feet. 5 it's true that we dont' know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. 6 anyone can become angry--that is easy. but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way--that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. 7 death, it seems, does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramtic. 8 your children don't know the meaning of the word "racism." let's keep it that way. 9 the credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being. 10 in jealousy, there is more self-love than love. 11 you don't have to blow out my candle to make yours grow brighter. 12 some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. sometimes it's letting go. 13 once you are real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand. 14 the mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. 15 there's no elevator to success. you have to take the stairs. 16 people who stand in the middle of the road get run over. 17there are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats. (picasso) 18 some people make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. 19 memories are meant to fade. they're designed that way for a reason. 20 do not let yourself be bound by reality. 21 when it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing. 22 it's not about the money, it's about the rush. (david arquette) 23 if you judge people, you have no time to love them. (mother theresa) 24 moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (h. g. wells) 25 unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. (don herold) 26 natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. (mary ellen kelly) 27 one thing about the speed of light: it gets here too early in the morning. 28 every time you make end meet, they move the ends. 29 when immeasureably / turns to intermittently / there's no sense in going on / for simple dear of being wrong (steven page, barenaked ladies) |