Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' - Tristan Wilds
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"
~Ludwig van Beethoven~
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything”
~Marilyn Monroe~
(True!)
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. - Stephen King
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. - Marla Gibbs
"The process is the most beautiful part." - Quincy Jones
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.- Friedrich Nietzsche
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night”
~Steve Martin~
We live in a society that likes to kick people when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times. - Joel Osteen
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love. - George Michael (dead at 53, RIP)
There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.' - Carrie Fisher (dead at 60, RIP)
"The secret to film is that it's an illusion." - George Lucas
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. - Voltaire
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. - Jim Butcher
“The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses... Each generation... will have its creed.”
―Alain Locke
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett
"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see." - Jimi Hendrix
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu
"To think is to practice brain chemistry." - Deepak Chopra
“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been”
~Sophocles~
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. - Blaise Pascal
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. - Samuel Goldwyn
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -Albert Einstein
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
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
― Edward L. Bernays
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. - Oscar Wilde
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" -JFK
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. - Liberace
“If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.” -Russell Simmons
"Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Don't put limitations on yourself. Others will do that for you."
-James Cameron
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
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." -Blaise Pascal
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - George Orwell
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." - Bobby Fischer
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. - Alexander the Great
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." -Henry David Thoreau
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.- Jack Canfield
"“Everyone wants to be great, until it’s time to do what greatness requires.”
― Joshua Medcalf
The worst of revolutions is a restoration. Charles James Fox
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”
― Larry Niven
That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying. - quote from the film "Midnight In Paris"
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Ben Franklin
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god”
~Aristotle~
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
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
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." -JFK
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. - Charlie Chaplin
“God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar
One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp. - Ed Wood
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. - Philip Roth
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience. - Anthony Quinn
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. - J. Paul Getty
"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go." -Margaret Walker
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.- Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -Peter Drucker
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. - Sophocles
"Don't try to understand women, women understand women, and they hate each other." - Al Bundy
We face neither East nor West: we face forward. - Kwame Nkrumah
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on." - Barack Obama
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. - Joan Rivers
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." -Lyndon B. Johnson
theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part
Destruction cometh.
they shall seek peace
and there shall be none. Ezekiel.7.25.
10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
(Revelation 2:10)
If music be the food of love, play on. - William Shakespeare
“Humankind has turned the world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.”
~Christopher Earle~
"This above all; to thine own self be true." -William Shakespeare
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome. - Robin Williams quote from the film "Patch Adams"
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." -Mark Twain
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -JFK
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. - Henry David Thoreau
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." -Colin Powell
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." -Benjamin Franklin
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. - Anaxagoras