"there are two great tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.

The other is to get it."- George Bernard Shaw " We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker-- as soon as you have lost all your marbles."- Brooks Hays " A book is the only place in which you can examine fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get provocation and privacy." Charles Langbridge morgan
I thought I knew you. But I guess its easier to see what we want than to look for the truth. You think you know me, but you dont, and that means you dont know what I can do. You see me as someone who is popular and has all the answers. Thats not true. I may not always know what I am doing, but Ill try to make things better. And when I make a mistake, because face it we all do, I promise Ill ask for your help. I cant do this alone, but if youll take a chance on me, we can do great things together. I promise if you believe me Ill find the courage to reach for your every dream. JFK said that courage of life is a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy, a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures and that is the basis of all morality.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often. Julian Baker (OTH)

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life." from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p. 124

Albus Dumbledore: "It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well."

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded...Batman

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Rabindranath Tagore

Okay so sometimes, even the best of us make rash decisions - bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we're gonna regret the moment, the minute - especially the morning after. I mean, maybe not "regret" regret because at least, you know, we put ourselves out there but still, something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know'll probably turn around and bite us in the ass yet we do it anyway. What I'm saying is; we reap what we sow. What comes around goes around. It's karma and, any way you slice it, karma sucks. Greys Anatomy The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.-

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life Leo Tolstoy Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, were but sincerity and truth were not; and I went hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices Henry David Thoreau

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~
Abraham Lincoln
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves." Abraham Lincoln

"Is there a God? I do not know. Is man immortal? I do not know. One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be." Robert G. Ingersoll
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. "Happiness then is simply about saying a heartfelt yes to all of life; to more positive emotions, to more engagement, to more meaning and purpose, to more caring relationships."

If you want a happy ending,that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. - Orson Welles

We're born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone Orson Welles