Quotes.

 I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests....Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

~ Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson.

Just because it isn't true, doesn't mean it's not helpful.
~ Brent Zupp

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~ Carl Jung

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
~ George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.
~ George Bernard Shaw

All of nature is the conjugation of the verb "to eat."
~ William Ralph Inge

Free market health care is about letting people die of treatable ailments if they don’t happen to have the money to pay.
~ Unknown

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Unknown

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~ Winston Churchill

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
~ Anais Nin

A wise person knows when to make the exception to every rule.
~ Barry Schwartz

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
~ Stephen R Donaldson

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
~ Thomas Paine

If all the insects on earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would disappear. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all species would flourish as never before.
~ Jonas Salk

The law is what we live with. Justice is something harder to achieve.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The source of the new...is the random.
~ Gregory Bateson

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
~ Swedish Proverb

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life
~ Benjamin Franklin

Scientists conclude that being nice, forgiving and cooperative is the best strategy, provided you retaliate against mean people now and then.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
~ Alice Walker

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
~ Jane Wagner

We pass through this world but once, so do now any good you can do, and show now any kindness you can show, for we may not pass this way again.
~ William Penn

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
~ Howard Aiken

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~ Hilary Cooper

Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill

I want to become the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
~ Unknown

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
~ Mark Twain

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
~ Nadia Boulanger

The past is history, the future a mystery, and the present a precious gift, hence the name.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~ Mother Teresa

I would read stuff in scholarly texts and know they were wrong. Living in Haiti, I realized that a minor error in one setting of power and privilege could have an enormous impact on the poor in another.
~ Paul Farmer to Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, p 78

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light. but rather because its opponents eventually die, and new generation grow up that is familiar with it (the new scientific truth).
~ Max Plank

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer (Life, Oct. 10, 1949)

A child's feeling of self-esteem is centered on the experience for which he/she is noticed most intently.
~ Howard Glasser

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.
~ Exodus 23:2