Quotes 'n Passages

Some of them have made me laugh, some have made me cry, but all have left a deep impression.

On Love

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Author Unknown

On Happiness

Discovered on Anna's Journal

From A Beautiful Mind

"I think that's the way it is with all our dreams and our nightmares; you've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive" - John Nash

The DESIDERATA

by Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant. They too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble. It�s a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

From The Little Prince

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand: 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

If you were to say to the grown-ups: 'I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof', they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: 'I saw a house that cost $20,000'. Then they would exclaim: 'Oh what a pretty house that is!'

The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.

'Please--tame me!' he said.

' I want to very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.'

'One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore. If you want a friend, tame me�K'

'Good bye,' said the fox. 'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'

How Do I Love Thee?
Let Me Count the Ways

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From Anne of Avonlea

'This world would be a much more interesting place�Kalthough it is very interesting anyhow�Kif people spoke out their real thoughts'

From Anne of Green Gables

'Oh, I know I'm a trial to you, Marilla' said Anne repentently. 'I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.'

'When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you'll only call me Anne spelled with an e I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.'

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

The Touch of the Master's Hand

From Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin: Dad, How do people make babies? Calvin's dad: Most people just go to Sears, buy the kit, and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I CAME FROM SEARS???? Calvin's dad: No, YOU were a blue light special at K Mart, almost as good, and a lot cheaper. Calvin: AAUUGHH! Calvin's mom: Dear, what are you telling Calvin now?!

The Law of Transitivity

'A crust of bread is better than nothing. Nothing is better than true love. Therefore, by the transitive property, a crust of bread is better than true love.'

Sonnet XVIII - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

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All I Ever Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

By Robert Fulgham

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don��t take things that aren't yours. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup ---they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all --- the whole world --- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.

From The X-Files

From the episode 'Hollywood A.D.' Agents Mulder and Scully are in Hollywood to see a film being created about them. In the movie, Tea Leoni (David Duchovny's wife in real life) plays Scully and Garry Shandling plays Mulder. At the five-star hotel, separate rooms, Mulder and Scully are talking on the phone

(Call cuts in.)

Mulder: Hey Scully, wait a second

(Cuts line.)

Skinner: Agent Mulder. This is Assistant Director Skinner. I hope I didn't catch you at a bad time

**************(after some conversation about work)*********

Mulder: Sir, do you mind if I ask you what you're doing?
Skinner: (matter-of-factly) I'm taking a bubble bath.
Mulder Uh Sir, can you hold on a minute?

(Mulder pushes a button)

Mulder: Hey Scully, Skin man's calling me from a bubble bath!
Skinner: Its still me Mulder
Mulder: uh..just a minute sir�K

(Mulder cuts line again)

Mulber: Scully?
Scully: Yeah?
Mulder: Skin man is calling me from a bubble bath!
Scully: Wow! So he's really going Hollywood!
Mulder: Totally!
Scully: Speaking of Hollywood, I think Tea Leoni has a little crush on you!
Mulder: Yeah right, as if Tea Leoni would ever have a crush on me�K.
Scully: I think Shandling likes you a bit too!
Mulder: Really?

The Bible

A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was the custom in that affluent neighborhood for the parents to give the graduate an automobile. Bill and his father had spent months looking at cars, and the week before graduation they found the perfect car. Bill was certain that the car would be his on graduation night.

Imagine his disappointment when, on the eve of his graduation, Bill's father handed him a gift-wrapped Bible! Bill was so angry, he threw the Bible down and stormed out of the house. He and his father never saw each other again. It was the news of his father's death that brought Bill home again.

As he sat one night, going through his father's possessions that he was to inherit, he came across the Bible his father had given him. He brushed away the dust and opened it to find a cashier's check, dated the day of his graduation, in the exact amount of the car they had chosen.

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The Wonders of the English Language

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England, or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But, when we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the pluralof tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend, that you can comb through annals of history, but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you also bote your tongue.

Sometimes I think all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Shop by truck and cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposite, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage and a strappy dress? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Seen someone who was conbulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are those people who ARE spring chickens and who WOULD actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which a house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, is not a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

- Source Unknown