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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.-- Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person, perfectly."
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.-- Lin Yutang
We accept the love we think we deserve
If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
What I am saying is that gay is good because it is, not because we can't help it. Love is good because it's love, not because we can't choose to love in any other fashion.-- Cory Kerens
The sun is like breasts - risky to look at unless you've got sunglasses.
It is better to have loved and lost than to have hated and won.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Never try to lick a glacier.
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.-- Fred Allen
God must love assholes--she made so many of them.
"Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."-- Tori Amos
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense."-- Ken Kesey
"Self-love is often unrequited."
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.-- Sloan Wilson
It's been lovely, but I have to scream now.
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.-- La Bruyere
Aquadextrous, adj: Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
They say it's never too late to learn to play the piano, but at 2 am, I really wish my roommate would quit and go to bed.-- Nathan Hansar
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.-- Orson Welles
Love thine enemies... it really pisses them off.
There must be more to life than sitting there wondering if there is more to life.
"It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."-- Fred Adler
Politics is like coaching a football team. You have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
"Ahh, Mr. Scott, I understand you're having difficulty with the warp drive. How much time do you require for repair?"
"There's nothing wrong with the bloody thing!"
"Mr. Scott, if we return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear, and we will never see the captain, or Dr. McCoy, alive again"
"Could take weeks, sir"
"Thank you, Mr. Scott"-- Spock and Scotty (Star Trek VI)
I love you, you love me,
With a little fricassee
And some mustard and ketchup smeared all over you,
Can't I have you for lunch too?
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.-- Jonathan Swift
"Not a Morning Person" doesn't even begin to cover it.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.-- Alfred Adler
Great Lover, n: A man who can breathe through his ears.
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
Headline: Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
"No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid."
"Love makes you do the wacky"-- Willow
"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"-- Dante Alighieri
Headline: Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them-- Paul Murphy
“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”-- Rick Warren
The course of true love never did run smooth.-- Shakespeare
Maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be. The door always must be left unlocked.
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."-- H.P. Lovecraft
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.-- Marie Osmond
The best way to get rid of worries is to let them die of neglect.
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Men are like a fine wine.
They start out as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the living shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."-- David Byrne
"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."-- La Rouchefoucauld
"Every man is afraid of something.That`s how you know he`s in love with you;when he is afraid of losing you"
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."-- George Bernard Shaw
Work like you don't need the money
Love like you've never been hurt
Fuck like you're being filmed
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”-- Anais Nin
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile."-- Franklin P. Jones
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."-- Oscar Wilde
I love stress because it's a whole lot better than depression.-- Drew Olbrich
Friendship is Love without its wings. (l'Amiti� est l'amour sans ailes.)-- Lord Byron
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.-- H. D. Thoreau
I've learned that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.-- Anatole France
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
"They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees everything in the loved one, notices everything; but melts it all into one flame with the great and simple: �I love you.�"
A great way for to lose weight is to eat naked in front of a mirror. Restaurants will almost always throw you out before you can eat too much.-- Frank Varano
Bathquake, n: The violent quake that rattles the entire house when the water faucet is turned on to a certain point.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.-- Douglas Adams
It's so strange how out of nowhere parents can turn psychic. It's unnerving.-- Angela Chase
I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.-- Fraser (Due South)
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."-- Victor Hugo
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Err. I'm visualising. I'm either really scared, or really turned on.
Or both. Maybe that's a typical reaction to Skud.-- Rebecca B. Gray
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.-- Woody Allen
"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."-- Mignon McLaughlin
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever."
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.-- Keith Sullivan
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.-- Sara-Jane Linton
I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream.-- Tori Amos
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.-- Voltaire
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.-- Bertrand Russell
I like the kind of people that can hold on to the the feeling they have after the song or movie ends.
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."-- Tom Stoppard
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.-- Alan Cohen
"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."-- Whitney Moore
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."-- A. Whitney Brown
"In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."-- Tori Amos
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.-- Aphra Behn
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.-- Libbie Fudim
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.-- Willa Cather
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.-- Douglas Adams
"Did I love her? I thought so. But from my new vantage point I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomoration of need, desperation, fear of death, insecurity about penis size, and the self-involved, ego-driven need to college other people's hearts." (Human Nature)
"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."-- Emil Ludwig
"People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases."-- Mark Twain
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.-- H. L. Mencken
Love is like pi: natural, irrational and very important.-- Lisa Hoffman
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.-- Francis Bacon
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Some people have a way about them that seems to say: 'If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk.'
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired-- Robert Frost
Books: A controlled hallucinogen known to regularly cause people to imagine things that are not really there.
I braved the contempt of my friends last week and ventured out to see "Bambi", the Disney rerelease that is proving to be a hit once again in the box office. I was looking forward to a gentle, soothing, late afternoon relief from the Washington Summer. Instead I was traumatized. As a psycho-sexual return to the horrors of early adolescence, it couldn't be more effective. For the first half-hour, you're lulled into an agreeable sense of security and comfort. Birds twitter; small rabbits turn out to be great conversationalists. Pop is what Senator Moynihan would describe as an absent father, but Mom's there to make you feel OK in the odd thunderstorm.
You make great friends, fool around on the ice, discover the meadow, generally mellow out. Then, without any particular warning, your mom gets shot, your voice breaks, huge growths start appearing on your head, and your peers start heading off into the clover with the apparent intention of having sex. Next thing you know, the forest burns down. If I were still eight, I think I'd prefer Rambo III."-- Townsend Davis
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.-- Confucius
It is better to waste one's youth, than to do nothing at all with it.-- Courteline
It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.-- Andre Gide
"You are so lovely."
"Yes."
"Yes! And you take a compliment, too! I like that in a goddess."
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw