In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palms of our hands. This is the gift given to creative individuals, who can identify life with the mysteries of life...through art... - Marcel Mareau [contributed by Rammar - the coolest girl alive...=)...]

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. - Helen Keller

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. - George Adams

He whom love touches not walks in darkness. - Plato

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves--in finding themselves. - André Gide

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. - Voltaire

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. - Salvador Dali

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - Matthew Arnold

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. - C.S. Lewis

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. - Marcus Aurelius

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. - Eric Hoffer

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. - James Baldwin

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. - Henry Miller

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person. - Jason Hurst

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. - Louis Brandeis

Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
- William Congreve

Truth never hurts the teller. - Robert Browning

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existance. - Lord Byron

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. - John Steinbeck

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery -- not over nature but of ourselves. - Rachel Carson

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain

Love not what you are, but what you may become. - Miguel de Cervantes

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. - Oscar Wilde

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. - Hermann Hesse

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. - William Shakespeare

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. - John Churton Collins

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them. - George Bernard Shaw

To be nobody - but yourself - in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt

I love to doubt as well as know. - Dante Alighieri

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. - Walt Whitman

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. - Charles Darwin

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. - Clarence Darrow

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were- to the very last minute- a chance to lose it. This is battle, This is politics, This is anything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are. - J. M. Barrie

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. - Erasmus

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far. - Euripides

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. - Henry Ford

I am not a teacher but an awakener. - Robert Frost

There's no vocabulary 
For love within a family, love that's lived in
But not looked at, love within the light of which
All else is seen, the love within which
All other love finds speech.
This love is silent.
- T.S. Eliot

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Friendship is different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, it is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law, as are children. But friendship is freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised. Friends never cheat each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height, is an ecstasy. - E. Ambrose Comrades

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F. Kennedy

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame. - George Eliot

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. - Mark Twain

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus