Friend's quotes of interest

We all wear masks, everyone, everyday. Sometimes we wear them so much, we forget who we really are. And sometimes if we are lucky, someone comes along and shows us who we really want to be, who we should be.

"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind."-Robert Oxton Bolton
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"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone."-Rose Kennedy

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him."-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Take chances. Tell the truth. Date someone totally wrong for you. Say no. Spend all your cash. Get to know someone random. Be random. Say I love you. Sing out loud. Laugh at stupid jokes. Cry. Apologize. Tell someone how much they mean to you. Tell a jerk what you think. Laugh till your stomach hurts. Live life. Regret nothing.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. --Paulo Coelho

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! -- Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." -Audrey Hepburn

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anonymous

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg." - Anonymous

"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde

"Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well." - Danish Proverb
"Memory has a hand in the grave up to the wrist." Anne Michaels

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

"Not being lost is not a matter of getting back to where you started from; it is a decision not to be lost wherever you happen to find yourself." Laurence Gonzales
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"The church says the Earth is flat. But I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church." Ferdinand Magellan

"Be open to a changing world and let go of the plan when necessary so that you can make a new plan. Then, as the world and the plan both go through their book of changes, you will always be ready to do the next right thing." Laurence Gonzales

"On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use." Epictetus

"There are times when / the poets and porn stars align / and you won't know who to believe in / well that's a good time to be leavin'" Anna Nalick

"There's the wind / and the rain / and the mercy of the fallen / who say they have no claim / to know what's right" Dar Williams

"I would be the last person in the world to attack modern science blindly. . .What I attacked in western science is its claim to be the only science of the natural world which is valid. It is no use to try to solve the ecological crisis on the basis of a science which is based upon the exclusion of the sacred from nature. That is, if you have a sacred feeling towards nature, it's just feeling. There is no knowledge that is accepted today in mainstream, western universities of the cosmos other than that of a cosmos which has become desacralized, depleted of its spiritual substance and all of it is relegated to emotions and to sentiments. It is this which I am opposing, really." Seyyed Hossein Nasr

"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one." Mae West

"To know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Frank Herbert

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." Frank Herbert

"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love." M. Scott Peck, M.D

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." Rose Franken

"I guess it's because we all want to believe that what we do is important, that people hang on our every word, that they care what we think. But the truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone, anyone, feel a little better." -JD (Scrubs)

To say "no" is not a sin. To say "yes" is not a virtue. Beware: time goes by and regrets may be lethal. --- Paulo Coelho

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 If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
-- John Ciardi

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
-- Sidney J. Harris

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to commit myself to fulfill my dreams --Paulo Coelho

you say you love someone, a lover or a friend, be prepared to love them
when they're at their worst. Stand by them when they need help, accept
them when they make mistakes, understand them even when they're in the
wrong. Otherwise it isn't love. You can't love part of someone, you
...have to love the whole person... (I really believe this now, thanks Jake for so eloquently expressing it)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
-- Bernard Bailey

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- Dorothy Nevill

Reality continues to ruin my life.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
-- Will Rogers

...."When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
-- Mark Twain

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Curie

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
-- Jeph Jacques

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
-- Cullen Hightower

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
-- Edward Teller

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-- Immanuel Kant

Better to lose some battles fighting for your dreams than to be defeated without knowing what your fighting for ---Paulo Coelho

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
-- Miss Piggy

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.-- Warren Beatty

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

You are loved

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved...the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear." — George Eliot