(most of these are book and movie quotes, hah)

• "I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it." -- constantine p. cavafy, remember body
• “He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, 'Life is so beautiful.' Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, 'Life is so beautiful,' then nothing else is important.” -- mario puzo, the godfather
• "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." -- ray bradbury, fahrenheit 451
• "Why do you resist? The thought must have crossed your mind at some point. The thought that you delved too deep. The thought that this would be a one-way trip. So instead of fighting the inevitable, why not embrace it? Just lay down and rest. There is beauty in this darkness that can be harnessed and used to usher something new." -- the god of fear and hunger, fear and hunger
• "Stupid is as stupid does, sir!" -- forrest gump
• "No man is a failure who has friends." -- it's a wonderful life
• "No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world." -- dead poets society