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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable ~Wizard of Oz

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. ~Henry Miller

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John F. Kennedy

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. - Aldous Huxley

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can 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

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour

Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. ~José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, translated from Portuguese

Sometimes you never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory ~Dr. Suess

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. - Sigmund Freud

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~W.C. Fields

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them. ~Author Unknown

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. - E.E. Cummings

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural
~Calvin Klein

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions ~Roddy Piper

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne

Do or Do not, There is no try ~Yoda

There are truths on this side of the Pyrénées, which are falsehoods on the other. ~Blaise Pascal

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

Impossible only means you haven't found the solution yet ~Anonymous

So often in life a new chapter awaits. You ride off into the sunset and discover it's the sunrise. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. - Naked Lunch(film)

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody. ~Moms Mabley

All art is quite useless - Oscar Wilde.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh

To travel is to live ~Hans Christian Anderson

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

I still have a mind of my own. Elsewhere being gracious is acceptable. - quote from Elizabeth Taylor's character in the film "Giant"

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

It isn't like the rest of the country — it is like a nation itself — more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York. ~John Steinbeck

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified. ~Anita Weiss

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. ~Jason Love

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Author Unknown

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.”
― Michael Grant, Fear

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. - Ann Landers

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren

The scent of the young boys you seduce still clings to you. Do not forget who it is you serve. - quote from the film "End Of Days"

“You are not what you are;
You are darkness
Looking for light within.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. - Jane Haddam

“No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.”
― Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.”
― Ray Fawkes, One Soul

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. - Victor Kiam

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~Marlene Dietrich

Maybe christmas doesn’t come from a store - Dr. Seuss

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

“The truth is in the heart;
out there is true darkness.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

“We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.”
― William Hill

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. - Sun Tzu

“Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light.”
― N.D. Wilson, Leepike Ridge

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.

--Stephen Moyer

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. -
Samuel Smiles

“If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.”
― Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. - Voltaire

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. - Oscar Wilde

“If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.”
― Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner

“The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, more frightening than they are.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

It is better to believe that God exists then die and find he doesn't than to not believe then die and find out that he does.

“I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

Do or do not.There is no try.

Yoda , The Empire Strikes Back

“We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -
Confucius

“From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.”
― Charles Manson

“Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.

("Out Of The Deep")”
― Walter de la Mare, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne

Time spent with cats is never wasted. -
Sigmund Freud

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark

"Madam, if i were truly two faced, do you honestly think i would be wearing this one?" : Abraham Lincoln

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. - David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. - David Bowie

Focus on what matters and let go of what doesnt..unknown

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

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