Quote of the Day Archive

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if any..."

"Hearts Hearts of hope and of promiseHearts filled with dreams and whim,These are the hearts of loversUnguarded,Standing out on a l..."

"'Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them a..."

"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact..."

"Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills."

"A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a l..."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

"If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?"

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the se..."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes."

"He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him."

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."

"The universal mind acts as an advisor or guide. When you abide by its advice then you will get another opportunity to alter your d..."

"There is no exquisite beauty... without some strangeness in the proportion."

"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across anoth..."

"People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They liv..."

"The Pompous Psychopomp Its your charge to provide me safe passage to the afterlife,to be a midwife to my dying. Any yet, you hover..."

"How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting."

"It's not over if you're still here,' Chronicler said. 'It's not a tragedy if you're still alive."

"When you trust your inner guidance and begin moving in the direction of your dreams (aligned with your individual gifts) you will ..."

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

"If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality."

"Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's ..."

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

"Asuka...you're really cute. When I look at you...I start wanting to protect you."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead..."

"There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men. Have..."

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"When there is nothing left to give somone in need, we give them what we do have. We give them Divine Love, faith, and friendship. ..."

"Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the 'right side' of the war, ever heard--let alone answered?"

"She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be rest..."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for ..."

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."

"Awareness is above intellect. Intellect is above speech. Speech is above knowledge. For knowledge in itself is just a name."

"Nice dress. Take it off."

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

"Mint Julep {Couplet} I've had more than a hint of a tulip or two,after treating them to a mint julep, or two."

"People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile."

"It's a fact that men make more money than women. That's why I became a man. Best decision of my life."

"To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy."

"I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine."

"Everything we experience in life is designed to shape our characters."

"The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love."

"Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life."

"Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy..."

"I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined unto me and He heard my cry. He lifted me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry..."

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by e..."

"A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly ol..."

"I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - ..."

"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."

"Science is a careful investigation."

"Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next."

"I often wear camouflaged pants so when I walk I look like a floating torso. I love with the same air of mystery."

"For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy."

"You are the sum of what you believe. Your capabilities are limitless when you allow yourself to be so."

"Why wait? So precious is this life--this gift--this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the..."

"Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself."

"Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. I..."

"Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace."

"With you, intimacy colours my voice.even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'."

"Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each."

"When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disi..."

"Our learned egocentric and judgmental consciousness is the source of unhappiness; however, universal consciousness is always bliss..."

"Taco Bell: Living proof you can shit where you eat."

"One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."

"I could watch him do this until morning -- never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly -- his intens..."

"I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse th..."

"If people reach perfection they vanish, you know."

"After their first,every soldier becomes a natural born killer."

"We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantl..."

"All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it's time my father started bei..."

"I dream like a dew drop in the nightThen glitter in the morning sunlightThen it evaporates to embrace the sky"

"People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity."

"The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and..."

"There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet."

"Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not..."

"Let's still be friends"(things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say)."

"I think I'm mouth blind and that's why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds it..."

"I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I knew it was you because you wer..."

"Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family."

"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen."

"The universe is eager to kindle in you experiences that will enhance and enlighten your consciousness."

"God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing."

"I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they'd fallen from the sun. Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. ..."

"DNA's the last hope of our species,spiraling to extinction."

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy--but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you li..."

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."

"Remember you are the voice for those who cannot talk; you are the protector of those who cannot protect themselves."

"Great Ideas Originate In The Muscles."

"If my favorite three letters are X, Z, and Q, then my favorite word is Xazaqazax. It means 'a lover of love."

"There Is More Treasure In Books Than In All The Pirate'S Loot On Treasure Island."

"When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply eva..."

"I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells..."

"Receiving bribes blurs the clear boundaries between friends and enemies."

"Time Time waits for no man ~but for hot women Time makes exceptions."

"One Size Fits All Life Strategy Smile first. Ask questions later."

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life."

"New Age Hype Don't 'honor your feelings.'Half the time they're full of shit. Don't 'embrace' anything without a pulse. Mindfulness..."

"Me: On time. Love: Late. Death: Early. Seriously, why are you late?"

"True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you."

"{Couplet} Can there be more callous crimethan unkindly killing time?"

"All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the pr..."

"You don't know anything, but I know even less."

"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I..."

"Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth."

"If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance ..."

"You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well gues..."

"There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your hear..."

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longe..."

"New Year's Resolutions New Year's resolutions shouldn't be about doing new things;it should be about stopping to do the shitty thi..."

"The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really..."

"My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said 'Rainbow'.... and I was punished to stand out of my class."

"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

"Seduction comes from our innate instincts for hunting and killing."

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

"Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells."

"There is peace even in the storm"

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

"Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It i..."

"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bareif you would dareto thi..."

"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better th..."

"God gave us two hands to holdan assault rifle."

"Right now, I had everything I could ask for. It wasn't a long list, but it was a very satisfying one, starting with the love of my..."

"When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt -- we are phantoms in the..."

"There is no new knowledge, it already exists in the universe."

"Keep Austin Weird Haiku Neck dragon tattoo, piercings, purple haired kindergarten teacher. Keep Austin weird."

"Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا."

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!"

"Wishes fall to the bottom of wells;only faith floats."

"She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when..."

"Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story."

"I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of."

"You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free."

"Marriage is the death of hope."

"We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices."

"A garden is a poem written with flowers on earth."

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."

"Lost vs. Lost We get lost twice in life. The first stems from uncertainty,when we try to find what our dreams truly are. The more ..."

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."

"Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you wor..."

"I can sell you wine and I can sell you flowers, but I can't sell you romance, because that comes from your heart, and it's free."

"الذي ينهك روحي أن أكون مع الناس طوال الوقت ، أو لفترات طويلة"

"I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonder..."

"I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?"

"The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too."["Existence"(1975)]"

"I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche..."

"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a differe..."

"Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that..."

"Covens of witches convened at their annual unconventional Coven's Convention."

"Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)"

"Love may be unilaterally blind,but divorce blinds both parties."

"This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, w..."

"Poets hate poets who are more talented than they are."

"You don't know anything, but I know even less."

"Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life."

"Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket."

"Rooftop Poetry Sing poetry from rooftopslike a muzzein' s call for prayer."

"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor."

"Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or somet..."

"Don't worry if people think you're crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream ..."

"I paint with shapes."

"The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you."

"Love's kiss of death is taking each another for granted."

"The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description."

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking ..."

"Plato was a bore."

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"Leaping lemmings! Leaping lemmings!I so adore ya'Can't get enoughJust want more'o'ya'!When I've had my fill'o'ya',I long for anoth..."

"If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is,..."

"His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think,"he s..."

"I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Li..."

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

"In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never l..."

"Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new 'gateʹ opening up soon o..."

"Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the mar..."

"من لم يتحرر من الاكراه في صورتيه: اكراه الاخر والخضوع للاخر، لايستطيع فهم هذا الدين وتمثيله"

"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul t..."

"When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life!"

"It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart a..."

"Where's Ralph Waldo Emerson When you Need Him? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds;as opposed to bigger hobgobl..."

"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."

"What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize I'm describing my..."

"The deep observation of nature can transform your consciousness into a higher consciousness that will awaken your true being."

"First knowledge is the knowledge of God."

"I had a dream about you last night. The best day of my life was when I taught you how to juggle, but the best day of yours was whe..."

"The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpos..."

"How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We ar..."

"The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, 'Th..."

"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."

"I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really..."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Kansas Haiku "Ya' know Superman'sfrom here and Jor-El could'vesent him to New York."

"Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver"No one will stop my quest to find you."

"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. Wh..."

"No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever m..."

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation,..."

"Poetry's not a calling. It's a whispering in your ear."