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Welcome to my Favorite Quotes Section Here are some of the quotes I've picked up here and there over the years. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

To believe Your own thought, to believe that what is true for

you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius.

- "Self-Reliance", Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood....

- ibid

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads....

- "The Pond in Winter", Henry David Thoreau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances

confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavers to live

the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected

in common hours.

- "Conclusion", Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.

- ibid.

I went do the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to

front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could

not learen what if had to teach, and not, when I came to die,

discover that I had not lived.

- "Where I Lived and What I Lived For", Henry David Thoreau

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in.

- ibid.

What is it about your race that none of you can seem to properly

weigh your own value? Every human seems to think more of herself

than she should, or less of her of herself than is sensible!

- Fredegar Rockcrusher, dwarven sage to Lady Alustriel of Silvermoon

Live the journey. For every destination is but a doorway to another.

- Man-at-Arms, Masters of the Universe

Life isn't a movie so why are we acting?

God, grant me the security to accept the things I cannot change,

courage the change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

Don't let some of the most wonderful things slip through your

fingers... hold on to it for dear life..

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+ THE LIFE OF AN EGG +

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+ So you think your life is bad... +

+ Just think how bad the life of an egg is... +

+ You only get laid once +

+ You only get eaten once +

+ It takes 4 minutes to get hard and 2 minutes to get soft +

+ You have to share a box with 11 other guys +

+ And the only chick that ever sat on your face was your mother +

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+ Now don't you feel better??? +

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Ahh, saki, saki. Forget about it. Sucked a nickel. Let me go do your job. Whatever....

You're such a freak. That's for crap. Buckwheat. Jimmy crack corn. Adam bomb.

Super Sonia. Damn Indian.

(....inside joke....hehe....)

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was

ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

- A Love Story, Caroline Knapp

I am Billgatus of Borg. You will be assimilated.

Resistance is fut -GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT in BORG.EXE-

The good life exists only when you stop wanting a better one. It is

the condition of savoring what is, rather than longing for what might

be....

Marya Mannes

Happiness is an inward power of the soul.

- Marcus Aurelius

Babylon 5

- Zig Ziglar

- Peter Weller, Buckaroo Banzai