LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP:

          True Love can't be found where it truly doesn't exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does
          - Foucault

 "chocolate milk is better than sex."
   - Bridget Harrison, or a friend of hers, but she told it to me...

faiths corrolary:
"Roller coasters are better than sex."

note: i am not precisely sure of that one, but damn, roller coasters have got to be the next thing. if sex isn't any better than roller coasters, than whats the point?

"Love is letting go of fear"
 - Gerald G. Jampolsky

"Love is composed of one soul inhabiting 2 bodies.
     - Aristotle

"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
- Cinderella

 "Absence from whom we love is worse than death" - William Cowper

   "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small,
   inflames the great"
   - Roger De Bussy Ratbutin

   "To love someone is to see them as God intended them"
   - Dostoevski

  "Find him whose hands make satin of burlap. He is the one for you."
  - Bridget Harrison

  "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
  - Spinoza

    "After all my erstwhile dear
    My no longer cherished
    Need we say it was not love
    Just because it perished?"
    - "Passer Mortuus Est",
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

   "Love is a forgiving thing like spring"
   - Sarah Masen
 

   "A person hears what you say. A friend listens to what you say. A Best Friend listens to what you don't say."

   "If all my friends were to go and jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I would be at the bottom to catch  them."

 "If you lived to be 100, I would want to live a 100 minus one day, so I would never have to live a day without you."
-Winnie the Pooh

"Sometimes, Piglet, people care too much. I think it's called love."
 - The New [bootleg] Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
 

   "You're the bravest of hearts, you're the strongest of souls. You're my light in the dark, you're the place I call home. You can say it's all right, but I know that you're breaking up inside. I see it in your eyes. Even you face the night afraid and alone. That's why I'll be there."
    - Celine Dion
 

Snowflakes are one of nature's
most fragile things,
but just look at what they can do
when they stick together.
--Vesta M. Kelly
[this is so true]
 
 

 Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray
when the sun shines.
--Satchel Paige
[ie, dont use someone...]
 
 
 

Beauty:
 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. Emerson, Journals, 1836.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity
and you are the mirror
- Kahlil Gibran

when you stop seeing beauty you start growing old - u2

Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.--George MacDonald

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson

Everything has it's own beauty, but not everybody sees it
Confucius

"...Its hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. Then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my life." - American Beauty
 

NATURE
  "Autumn - A second spring when every leaf is a flower"
  - Albert Camus

  " To see the summer sky
  Is poetry, though never in a book it lie -
  True poems flee - "
  - Emily Dickinson

"And Finally
I stopped for a breath in the evening
And suddenly
I was caught by the scenery
Painting a picture of You "
- Sarah Masen

"Study nature as the countenance of God"
- Kingsley

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like the dew on the
tip of a leaf"
- Rabindranath Tagore
 

WRITING AND INTELLECT

"A genuine poem can communicate before it is understood."
 - Dante Aligheri
   this is so incredibly true that it makes me want to cry

"We must take care not to make intellect our God - it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein

"A true writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one who nobody
can imitate"
- Chauteaubriand or somthin like that

"Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius"
[Nothing is said which has not been said before]
- Terence
 

" I dread writing poetry... a poem is a terrible journey... the writing of
a poem brings one face to face with ones own personality with all its
familiar and clumsy limitations. In every other phase of existence,
one can exercise the orthodoxy of a conventional routine... in poetry,
one is wrestling with a god. "
- Stephen Spender

 
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it. -Jane Kenyon

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you, the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to pwople, then you are a writer. "
 - Ernest Hemingway
[a note from me: if you have never felt like this after reading a book, then you need to read The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It is amazing.]

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built in, shock proof shit detector. This is the writers radar and all great writers have it."
 - Ernest Hemingway
 
 DEBATE:

"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."
André Maurois

"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy- but he who has shown the better temper."
Samuel Butler

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
Christopher Lasch

A good debater knows the topic. A great debater knows the judge.
 - paraphrased

"Ability is not a necessity. Passion is."
 - From my birthday poster, thank you Amanda and Chris!!

Education is making people easier to to govern but impossible to enslave.
--Henry Peter Brougham
[thats my answer to social control, bitch...]

"The most savage controversies are about matters as to which
there is no good evidence either way."
--Bertrand Russell

"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single
paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms."
--Aristotle

"There's only one thing worse than the man who will argue
over anything, and that's the man who will argue over
nothing."
--Laurence Peter

"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the
opposition."
--Nick Seitz

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create
the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
--Stanley Kubrick

"Silence is one of the hardest things to refute."
--Josh Billings
 
 

 RANDOM STUFF:
 

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller

"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand bulit gay guys with M16s going, 'Whod' you call a faggot?"
- John Stewart

"I say, embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life's too short to be cool."
-Shirley Manson

 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:  I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
~Rebecca West, 1913 [quoted an awful lot, but that's ok, still good]
 

"You could move."
 ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the neighborhood
 

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you.
Yes, hate is good ... if a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It's that simple. Our goal is a
Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country..."
-Randall Terry, former leader of Operation Rescue
he got a divorce, because he wanted to go to Vertmont and preserve the sanctity of marrige. That's so funny I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
 

Spank Spank.
 - Nathan
 

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

 I've realized slowly that I *am* a passionate person inspite of being quite
 introverted. I'm passionate for the truth.
 - Dave Ross from my mailing list
amen, brother

Not all who wander are lost
 - J. R. R. Tolkein

If you're insecure, the last thing you want to see is a mirror.
 - Ani Difranco

If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, Y is play and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein

Certainly there are things in life which money can't buy,
But its very funny -
Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
 - Ogden Nash
 
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
--Susan Ertz
(hey....whatcha wanna do.... I donno, what you wanna do... hehehe chris)
 

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
- Fox Mulder
 - i stole this quote from jackie, hope she doesnt mind...
 

"Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein
 

"Was it for this I uttered prayers
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs
That now, domestic as a plate
I should retire at half past eight?"
"Grown Up", Edna St. Vincent MIllay

"A politician is an arse upon
Which everyone has sat except a man"
- e.e.cummings

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk"
- Henry David Thoreau

"You say he's a faggot, arent you afraid you're just the same?" - Jewel

"Man created a vengeful God out of his own bigotry, and the devil out of his own hell."
 - Inherit The Wind

 I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
"O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
-- Voltaire
 

"I'm lost
I've gone to look for myself.
If I should return before I get back,
Please ask me to wait."
 - quote on a classroom wall in vestavia somewhere
   thanks amanda!
 

 "Humankind
 Canot bear very much reality"
 - T.S. Eliot

"Whats the difference between an orange?
A horse, because it doesnt have any handlebars!"
- from some guys profile on AIM
  [... I used to have one of those, but then the wheels fell off...]

"...Your living thing, do you wonder what that is? It is that which causes you to laugh,
and to cry; to hurt and to care. It is that which makes apples crunchy and tells your
nose to tinkle on a crystal winters morning. Its kept in your left ear, you know."
 - Puff The Magic Dragon

"Nothings gross if you put enough ketchup on it."
 - Daniel Foti
 - Amanda Reed would certainly agree -EVERYTHING'S gross if you dont put enough ketchup on it? (:
 
"A penny saved is a penny earned, but a penny placed in hydrochloric acid is lost."
 - Nathan Petrarca

"He who looks one way while crossing the street will never know what hit him."
  - Andrew Maroney

"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam."
 [I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.]
 - someones signature on cross-x.com

"If I were a piccolo, would sandpaper be my friend? Could I wash cars, with lemon
scented stars, and ringdings too?"
 - Chris Sorrentino

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
--Vladimir Nabokov
 
 
 

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