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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  ~James Matthew Barrie


A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.  ~Gerald Raferty


Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. ~Arab Proverb


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull


The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.  The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.  ~George Bernard Shaw


Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.  ~Thomas a' Kempis


How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.  ~Bill Copeland


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.  ~William Shakespeare, Othello


Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional.  ~M. Kathleen Casey


Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken?  ~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.  ~Gordon R. Dickson


The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four.  Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.  ~Winston Churchill


I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.  ~Frances Willard


I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.  ~Elwyn Brooks White


If you want to be happy, be.  ~Leo Tolstoy


Happiness is always a by-product.  It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.  But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.  ~Robertson Davies


I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.  ~Joe Walsh


What is to give light must endure burning.  ~Viktor Frankl


For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way.  Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.  ~Fr. Alfred D'Souza


Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


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 we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight.  Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.  With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.  And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.  ~Robert Fulghum


We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.  ~Japanese Proverb


The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to.  The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.  ~A.L. Kitselman


Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.  Seek discipline and find your liberty.  ~Frank Herbert


Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down.  ~Toni Morrison


Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try.  ~Yoda


The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.  ~Joseph Campbell


A nod,
a bow,
and a tip of the lid
to the person
who coulda
and shoulda
and did.
~Robert Brault, "A Poem Missing the Word Woulda," www.robertbrault.com


I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves.  I skip down the street and run against the wind.  ~Leo Buscaglia


When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"


Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.  Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.  ~Ani Difranco


You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar


I don't rent space to anyone in my head.  ~Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt's question about why he had not gotten upset


What a miserable thing life is:  you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.  ~Bertolt Brecht


If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.  ~Charley Reese


Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again.  ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com


The most trying hours in life are between four o'clock and the evening meal. A cup of tea at this time adds a lot of comfort and happiness. ~Royal S. Copeland


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Author Unknown


Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.  ~Samuel Butler


Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.  ~Mignon McLaughlin


If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?  ~Sydney J. Harris


Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him.  Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be.  Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate.  Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow."  ~Louis L'Amour


The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.  ~Jules Renard


I would prefer not to.  ~Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"


Rule #1:  Use your good judgment in all situations.  There will be no additional rules.  ~Nordstrom's Employee Handbook


Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you're sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich.  It's on the other side of that, when you don't make the sandwich.  It's about sacrifice.... It's about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling.  That's what I believe, anyway.  I'm always asking, "What am I going to give up next?"  Because I want to feel.  ~Jim Carrey, from a Michael Fleming interview in the March 2004 issue of Playboy magazine


You can have your cake and eat it.  But my God, it will go rotten inside you.  ~D.H. Lawrence


You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room.  You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


May I never be complete.  May I never be content.  May I never be perfect.  Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.  ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5


No fear.  No distractions.  The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.  ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk

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