THOUGHTS

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“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” Janis Joplin

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Anonymous

Share the music that stirs in your soul, someone will be better for it.
Even if it turns out to be only you, you're worth it! - Selia Qynn, American poet

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court Justice

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
- John Hobbes

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. - Anonymous

There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
- Anonymous

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Anonymous

"Nomadic fragments of igneous and metamorphic strata, having non-zero quantities of angular momentum, accumulate no forms of bryophitic plant life"
- Anonymous

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
- Mark Twain

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
- Cynthia Heimel

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

No man eversteps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Heraclitus

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- George C. Scott

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Nietzsche

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
- Frederick Douglass

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
- Edward Teller

Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character for it will become your destiny.
- Hillel, ancient biblical scholar

Doubt is as crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.
- Reverend Carter Heywood

The perpetrator of a wrong never forgives his victims.
- John Ross

Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holms, American physician and author

Can blind people see their dreams? - Anonymous.

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
- Anonymous

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- Ruth Smeltzer

God is dead
- Nietzsche

Nietzsche is dead
- God

I'm immortal... so far.
- Earle Robinson

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
- Erma Bombeck

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell

The only tyrant I accept in this life is the 'still small voice' within.
- Ghandi

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
- Confucius

Beauty without grace is like a violet without scent.
- Anonymous

Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing, On his darkest day, he believes in Spring!
- Douglas Malloch

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.
- Thomas R. Dewar

When the night is cloudy, I still believe in stars,
Even when the darkness blocks the light.
They're shining out like beacons on the other side of hope.
You can see them when you hold your heart just right.
- Selia Qynn, American poet and thinker of random thoughts