Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting

-John Green

Common sense is genius dressed in its work clothes

-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

If you really think the environment is less important than the economy; Try holding your breath while you count your money.

- Dr. Guy McPherson

There are many things about my life and my behavior that I wish I could change, situations I wish I could have handled better, relationships I could have healed.  But unfortunately, the world seems to turn only one way and all we can do is try to learn

-Ethan Hawke

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you're dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

-Benjamin Franklin

Every man is guilty of the good he did not do

-Voltaire

Your life is not a character arc in which a love interest arc is obligated to appear at some point - it is a horribly free-form escalator ride to the grave, and it is up to you to make the most of it by shaping yourself into the kind of person you're attracted to would plausibly find attractive

-Winston Rowntree

Love means that you accept a person with all their failures, stupidities, ugly points and nonetheless, you see perfection in imperfection itself

-Slavoj Žižek

If you love a flower, don't pick it up.  Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.  So, if you love a flower, let it be.  Love is not about possession.  Love is about appreciation

-Osho

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worry can change the future

- Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

In the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of being bitter or indulging in hate

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails

-Yiddish Proverb

Don't worry what people think, they don't do it very often

-Jacqueline Delisle

Gaining knowledge is the first step to wisdom.  Sharing it is the first step to humanity.

-Anonymous

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet

-Jack London

To be beautiful means to be yourself.  You don't need to be accepted by others.  You need to accept yourself

- Thich Nhat Hahn

A Samurai should always be prepared for death.  Whether it be his own or someone else's

-Stan Saki

If you love only those that love you, what reward is there for that? Even the corrupt do that much.  If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else?

-Jesus

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what's right is not unpopularity at all, but glory

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Avoid using the word 'very' because it is lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted.  Don't use very said, use morose.  Language was invented for one reason boys, to woo women, and in that endeavor laziness will not do

-John Keating (Dead Poet's Society)

Verily, the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning into the funeral

-Khalil Gibran

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart

-Ulysses Everett McGill (O Brother Where Art Thou)

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty

-Ghandi

I wish there was a way to know you're in the 'good old days' before you've actually left them

-Andy Bernard (The Office)

The Goal isn't to live forever, the Goal is create something that will

-Chuck Palahniuk

Young Earth Creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life...but one particular band of Bronze Age goat herders got it exactly right

- Chuck Easttom

The cheapest form of pride is national pride.  For it reveals in the one thus afflicted the lack of individual qualities of which he can be proud, while he would not otherwise reach for what he shares with so many millions.  He who posses significant personal merits will rather recognize the defects of his own nation, as he has them constantly before his own eyes, most clearly.  But that poor blighter who has nothing in the world of which he can be proud latches onto the last means of being proud, the nation to which he belongs to.  Thus he recovers and is now in gratitude ready to defend with hands and feet all errors and follies which are its own.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs.  So people pretend there is drama where there is none

- Kurt Vonnegut

Stand among the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters

- Javik (Mass Effect 3)

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved

- Mother Teresa

Failure is not falling down, it’s refusing to get up 

- Chinese Proverb

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. 

- N.D. Walsch

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm

- Abraham Lincoln

If we shadows have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended,

That you have but slumbr’d here

While these visions did appear

-Puck (Midsummer Night's Dream)

The price of wisdom is above rubies 

-  Job 28:18

The problem isn't that there are too many fools in the world...it's that lightning isn't distributed right

-Mark Twain

I love you without knowing how, or when, or where.  I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this:  where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that as your eyes close I fall asleep

- Pablo Neruda (Sonnet XVII)

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them

- Herman Hesse

Mind without emotion is sterile, emotion without mind is devastating

- Richard Maurice Bucke

A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.

-Anonymous

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life

-Mark Twain

Only equals speak the truth;
Friends and lovers lie endlessly,
caught in a web of regard.

-Stephen King

There's class warfare alright, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and they're winning

- Warren Buffett

Count your age by friends, not years
Count your life by smiles, not tears

-John Lennon

Don't limit a child to your own learning;  For they were born in another time

- Rabindranath Tagore

What do you mean The Revolution?  The War?  That was no part of The Revolution.  It was only an effect and consequence of it.  The Revolution was in the minds of the people

-John Adams

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping the moon tells me a secret - my confidant - as full and bright as I am this light is not my own and a million light reflections pass over me

-Tool

When I was a young man, I had liberty, but did not see it.  I had time, but I did not know it.  I had love, but I did not feel it.  Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, in the twilight of my life this understanding has passed into contentment

- Ezio Auditore (Assassins Creed)

Change is the law of life.  And those who look only to the past are sure to miss the future

-John F. Kennedy

I shall either find a way or make one

-Hannibal

The price of being a sheep is boredom.  The price of being a wolf is loneliness.  Choose one or the other with great care

- Hugh MacLeod

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it

-Winston Churchill

Our life is a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness

- Vladimir Nabokov

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance

-George Bernard Shaw

We're in a giant car heading toward a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

-David Suzuki

It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay.  Small acts of kindness and love

-Gandalf (J.R.R. Tolkein)

Normal is an illusion.  What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

-Morticia Addams (Addams Family)

Can a man be brave if he is afraid

That is the only time a man can be brave

-George R. R. Martin

Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear

-George Orwell

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.  Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our modern mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.  They are not normal, not in what may be called the absolute sense of the world;  They are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.  Their perfect adjustment to that society is a measure of their mental sickness.  These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted

-Aldous Huxley