At night, your beloved wanders.  Do not accept consolations

 - Rumi

One umbrella –
the person more in love
gets wet
 
– Keisanjin

“Love is friendship, set on fire.”

 - Jeremy Taylor

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” 

- Robert Heinlein

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

 -Aristotle

''Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.'' 

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.  

- Samuel Lover

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

 - Neil Gaiman

To Love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a Divine Spark. 

- Paulo Coelho

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope or fear 

- Francais de le Rochefauld

Love each other stubbornly and be stubborn about nothing else 

- Sam Reich

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.  The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear 

- Nelson Mandela

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech
 
- W. Somerset Maughnam

Rule 17: Don’t turn your back on bears, men you have wronged, or the dominant Turkey during mating season
 
- Dwight Shrute

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college 

- PJ O’Rourke

Delicious Bourbon
Finest of all the spirits
a drunken haiku
 
- Jeph Jacques

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink in the wild air 

- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

When the politician complains that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there and TV merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained
 
-Edward R. Murrow

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. 

- Groucho Marx

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations 

- Walter Bagehot

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen. 

- John Steinbeck

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be

“A long time ago, today was the future.” 

- The Big Book Of The Future

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

 - Indira Gandhi

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. 

 - Alexander Dumas

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you  

- William James

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

 - Victor Hugo

Real eyes
Realize
Real lies

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
 
-  Henry David Thoreau

If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them - John Waters

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul - Jesus

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. - Hugh Laurie

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.  ~ Louis D. Brandeis

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

- Dr. Seuss

Don’t say another Goddamn word.  Up until now, I’ve been polite. If you say anything else, one word, I will kill myself.  And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place.  From my black throne I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you.  This fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one.  When it begins you will hear the sound of children screaming – as though from a great distance.  A smoking orb of nothing will form above your bed.  From this morbid chasm will emerge a thousand starving crows.  As I slip through the widening maw in my new form you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated.  Then as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face I will open my six mouths and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.
 
- Penny Arcade

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail 

- Abraham Maslow

The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.
 
-  Earl Tupper

The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a spec of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star … would look up at the sky and declare, ‘It was all made so that I could exist!

 - Peter Walker

 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
 
- George Bernard Shaw

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head."

 - Dennis Miller

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

“To the privileged, equal treatment feels like discrimination.”  

- Adam Serwer

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” 

- John Greenleaf Whittier

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
 
- Bertrand Russell

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation.” 

 - Coretta Scott King

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body... That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
 
- Louis de Bernières

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”  

- Buddha

“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy, not respectable and wealthy, not rich. To listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart. To study hard, to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common — this is my symphony.”  

 - William Ellery Channing

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” 

 - Plato

Saying sorry doesn’t mean you’re wrong. Sometimes, it means that you’re just tired explaining yourself.
 
- Isabelle Dagmang

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.- Michael Crichton

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it: always. - Mahatma Gandhi

“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? - Yevgeny Yevtushenko”

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross
-Sinclair Lewis

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~ Robert M. Hutchins

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ~ Edward R. Murrow

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. ~ Mark Twain

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. 

~ William E. Gladstone

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. - Epictetus

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination - Mark Twain

If you’re not happy with what you have, what makes you think you’ll be happy with more?

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
-John Henry Cardinal Newman

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. - Conan O’Brien

For now, I'm going to make this a quotes blog, that should eventually evolve some actual, original content once I get some more time.