- Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. -Lucille Ball
- Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -Ludwig van Beethoven
- Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. -Anon.
- Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius
- Without music, life would be a mistake. -Nietzche
- You are the music while the music lasts. -T.S. Eliot
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Aldous Huxley
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images becomes inadequate, I shall be content with silence. -Ansel Adams
- Do not go gentle into that good night/Old age should burn and rave at close of day;/Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas
- God and other artists are always a little obscure. -Oscar Wilde
- If you can planning a career in the theatre, you must keep certain core principles in front of you: you must watch. You must listen. You must share. You must learn to breathe together with others. You must respect your work. You must respect the creativity in the air around you. And you must relearn how to play. -Chita Rivera
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you someone else is the greatest accomplishment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatest success. -Seneca
- The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e. cummings
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. -Kurt Vonnegut
- Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. -Henri Bergson
- A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. -Raymond Hitchcock
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. -Friedrich Nietzsche
- If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. -Mahatma Gandhi
- Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. -Hugh Sidey
- Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. -Mae West
- I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. -Mae West
- It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. -Mae West
- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -Mae West
- Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. -Kahlil Gibran
- I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. -Robert Fulghum
- If I ever stop laughing, I'm dead. -Tom Knapp
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer
- Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -Ludwig van Beethoven
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde
- Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. -C.S. Lewis
- In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happenend to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do. -The Wonder Years
- I believe laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles. -Audrey Hepburn
- I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -Audrey Hepburn
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. -Washington Irving
- From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. -Michelangelo
- Ti amo, ti voglio, per sempre. -Graffiti on the Arezzo Aqueducts
- Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. -Robert Fulghum
- Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway. - Eric Idle
- I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -Marilyn Monroe
- Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life" whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. -Hunter S. Thompson
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. -Pietro Aretino
- If you listen carefully, your lips remember their first kiss and their first loss, your body remembers the places of hurt and the places of pleasure. -Tim Miller, queer performance artist
- My identity was written on the wall by ancient and formidable guides and forces. The best thing I can do is keep my hand out of it. - Robert Downey Jr.
- I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. - Charlie Chaplin
- A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. - Charlie Chaplin
- A day without a laugh is a wasted day. - Charlie Chaplin
- You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us. - Sappho
- Judgment equals death. Get out your notebooks and write that down, I think you will want to remember that. - Francine Roussell
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams
- Yes, so that is...tragedy. - Francine Roussell
- Take my picture Hollywood...I wanna be a star. - Lady Gaga
- The closest thing to tragedy is throwing up; when it comes, it is like an earthquake. You can't resist it. When you think it is gone and you are safe, it comes back again. - Francine Roussell
- No one likes you clown, because you're stupid. Stupid clown. - Eli Simon
- Writer's Block is a horrible friend. She's the annoying one that doesn't take a hint when you're trying to get her to leave. -Samanther Sembler
- We always want to believe we're right. But it's... stupid. It's an illusion. But we do it because even if only for a few moments, it makes us feel worth something. -Francine Roussell
- But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -William Butler Yeats
- Although only breath, words which I command are immortal. -Sappho
- If you have no voice, scream; if you have no legs, run; if you have no hope, invent. -cirque du soleil's alegria
- peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. -Unknown
- Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -Buddha
- Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away. -Robert Fulghum
- First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. -Thomas Kempis
- To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, 'What's it for?' -Robert Fulghum
- My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. -John Lennon
- Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. -John Lennon
- And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. -Nietzsche
- Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. -Albert Camus
- hommes et femmes sont faits pour vivre et créer, vivre et créer. jusqu’aux larmes.
- viva fino al punto di lacrime.
- In real life, people judge you from your actions without knowing the reason behind it. -Joseph Conrad
- You were wild once here. Don't let them tame you. -Isadora Duncan
- My motto - sans limites. -Isadora Duncan
- Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? -Isadora Duncan
- Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god. -Vespasian, Roman Emperor (final words)
- With beauty before me, I walk / With beauty behind me, I walk / With beauty above and about me, I walk, / It is finished in beauty, / It is finished in beauty. -Navajo chant
- Actors are one family over the entire world. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- Well-behaved women rarely make history. -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James A. Baldwin
- The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -Albert Camus
- ...if you put limits on what you can do, physical of anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level. -Bruce Lee
- Os sonhadores constoem o mundo, os outros copiam. (The dreamers build the world, other copy.)
- This too shall pass. -Old Proverb
- Truth is, everyone's going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for. -Bob Marley
- Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso
- Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -Allen Ginsburg
- All good things are wild and free. -Henry David Thoreau
- This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're gonna mes sup sometimes. It's a universal truth. But the good part is, you get to decide how you're gonna mess it up. -Marilyn Monroe
- The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. -Lois Lowry's the Giver
- The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. -Nietzsche
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive' and to do so with some passions, some compassion, some humor, and some style. -Maya Angelou
- Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. -Dr. Seuss
- I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. -J.D. Salinger
- I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate. -Jeff Buckley
- You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche
- Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. -Pres. Theodore Roosevelt
- I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here – they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us. -Pres. Barack Obama
- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home. -Aboriginal Proverb
dec 8 2008 ∞
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