Life can be so tragic -- you're here today and here tomorrow.
Life exists for no known purpose.
Life is a grand adventure -- or it is nothing.\n-- Helen Keller
Life is knowing how far to go without crossing the line.
Life is like a 10 speed bicycle.  Most of us have gears we never use.\n-- C. Schultz
Life is like a sewer.  What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.\n-- Tom Lehrer
Life is the childhood of our immortality.\n-- Goethe
Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.\n-- Joseph Pintauro
Life is the urge to ecstasy.
Life may have no meaning, or, even worse, it may have a meaning of which you disapprove.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible -- not to have run away.\n-- Dag Hammarskjold
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all.\n-- Thomas J. Kopp
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.\n-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
Living in the complex world of the future is somewhat like having bees live in your head.  But, there they are.
Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence.
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?\n-- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens?
[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.\n-- S. Kierkegaard
Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly.  An aide once asked him how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week. The great man replied that it was because this week he knew better.
Murphy was an optimist.
Murphy's Law is recursive.  Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.\n-- Lao Tsu
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.\n-- Albert Einstein
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.\n-- Christopher Morley
Nasrudin called at a large house to collect for charity.  The servant said "My master is out."  Nasrudin replied, "Tell your master that next time he goes out, he should not leave his face at the window.  Someone might steal it."
Nasrudin walked into a shop one day, and the owner came forward to serve him.  Nasrudin said, "First things first.  Did you see me walk into your shop?"\n"Of course."\n"Have you ever seen me before?"\n"Never."\n"Then how do you know it was me?"
Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun."\n"Why?", he was asked.\n"Because at night we need the light more."
Nasrudin was carrying home a piece of liver and the recipe for liver pie. Suddenly a bird of prey swooped down and snatched the piece of meat from his hand.  As the bird flew off, Nasrudin called after it, "Foolish bird!  You have the liver, but what can you do with it without the recipe?"
Ninety percent of everything is crap.\n-- Theodore Sturgeon
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.\n-- Augustine
No matter where I go, the place is always called "here".
No use getting too involved in life -- you're only here for a limited time.
Nobody ever ruined their eyesight by looking at the bright side of something.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.\n-- E.M. Forster
Normal times may possibly be over forever.
Not every question deserves an answer.
Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.
Nothing is as simple as it seems at first\nOr as hopeless as it seems in the middle\nOr as finished as it seems in the end.
Nothing is but what is not.
Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.\n-- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.\n-- Arthur Balfour
Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this|to know so much and have control over nothing.\n-- Herodotus
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.\n-- H.R. Haldeman
Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.
One learns to itch where one can scratch.\n-- Ernest Bramah
One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it.
One monk said to the other, "The fish has flopped out of the net! How will it live?" The other said, "When you have gotten out of the net, I'll tell you."
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.\n-- Baba Ram Dass
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.\n-- Lao Tsu
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.\n-- Laurie Anderson
Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.\n-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.\n-- John Keats
Push where it gives and scratch where it itches.
Reality always seems harsher in the early morning.
Reality does not exist -- yet.
Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?\n-- Patrick Sky
Reality is for people who lack imagination.
Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.\n-- Alvy Ray Smith
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.\n-- Lily Tomlin
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".\n-- Philip K. Dick
Remember, Grasshopper, falling down 1000 stairs begins by tripping over the first one.\n-- Confusion
Rule of Life #1 -- Never get separated from your luggage.
Seeing is believing.  You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it.
Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.\n-- Long Chen Pa
So little time, so little to do.\n-- Oscar Levant
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.\n-- Seneca
Sometimes you get an almost irresistible urge to go on living.
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard.  If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.\n-- Chuang Tzu
Suffering alone exists, none who suffer; The deed there is, but no doer thereof; Nirvana is, but no one is seeking it; The Path there is, but none who travel it.\n-- "Buddhist Symbolism", Symbols and Values
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.\n-- Martin Luther
Take your dying with some seriousness, however.  Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life forms, and they'll call you crazy.\n-- "Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul"
That that is is that that is not is not.
That, that is, is. That, that is not, is not. That, that is, is not that, that is not. That, that is not, is not that, that is.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.\n-- A. Camus
The best you get is an even break.\n-- Franklin Adams
"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain."\n-- G. Fitch
The chief cause of problems is solutions.\n-- Eric Sevareid
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.\n-- Alfred Adler
The days are all empty and the nights are unreal.
The door is the key.
The farther you go, the less you know.\n-- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching"
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.\n-- Maurice Chapelain, "Main courante"
The first requisite for immortality is death.\n-- Stanislaw Lem
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.\n-- Sophocles
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.\n-- Marcus Terentius Varro
The major sin is the sin of being born.\n-- Samuel Beckett
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.  What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.\n-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.\n-- Lao Tsu
The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
The moss on the tree does not fear the talons of the hawk.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.  It is the chief occupation of mankind.\n-- H.L. Mencken
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.\n-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently.  The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.\n-- James Cabell, "The Silver Stallion"
The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases|"Let our thoughts be correct".\n-- Confucius
The price of success in philosophy is triviality.\n-- C. Glymour.
The questions remain the same.  The answers are eternally variable.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.\n-- Damon Runyon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.\n-- Francis Bacon
The savior becomes the victim.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.\n-- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices"
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.  It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.\n-- Franz Kafka
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.\n-- Oscar Wilde
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.\n-- Lenny Bruce
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.\n-- Stanley Kubrick
The truth you speak has no past and no future.  It is, and that's all it needs to be.
The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.\n-- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.\n-- Baba Ram Dass
There are no winners in life, only survivors.
There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.\n-- David Nichols
There is more to life than increasing its speed.\n-- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.\n-- Cato
There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.\n-- George Santayana
There is no sin but ignorance.\n-- Christopher Marlowe
There's only one everything.
To get something clean, one has to get something dirty. To get something dirty, one does not have to get anything clean.
To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
To give of yourself, you must first know yourself.
To have died once is enough.\n-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
To lead people, you must follow behind.\n-- Lao Tsu
Truth has no special time of its own.  Its hour is now -- always.\n-- Albert Schweitzer
Truth is hard to find and harder to obscure.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.\n-- Milton
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.\n-- Euripides
We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.\n-- Yates
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.\n-- Margaret Mead
We have only two things to worry about:  That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have.
We have reason to be afraid.  This is a terrible place.\n-- John Berryman
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.\n-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
We're all in this alone.\n-- Lily Tomlin
We're mortal -- which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful -- but those are only handicaps.  Our pride is that nevertheless, now and then, we do our best.  A few times we succeed.  What more dare we ask for?\n-- Ensign Flandry
Well, you know, no matter where you go, there you are.\n-- Buckaroo Banzai
"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."\n-- The Mahabharata.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.\n-- Nietzsche
What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?\n-- Ursula K. LeGuin
What we Are is God's gift to us. What we Become is our gift to God.
Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.\n-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.\n-- Gandhi
When it's dark enough you can see the stars.\n-- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.\n-- Voltaire
When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it.
When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.\n-- Brooke Shields
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.\n-- Lao Tsu
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.\n-- J. Winter Smith
Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list.
[Wisdom] is a tree of life to those laying hold of her, making happy each one holding her fast.\n-- Proverbs 3:18, NSV
With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.\n-- Socrates, quoting Plato [Huh?  That's like Johnson quoting Boswell]
Work Hard.\nRock Hard.\nEat Hard.\nSleep Hard.\nGrow Big.\nWear Glasses If You Need 'Em.\n-- The Webb Wilder Credo
Yes, but which self do you want to be?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.  You may have to work for it, however.\n-- R. Bach, "Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul"
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.\n-- Tim Leary
You can get *anywhere* in ten minutes if you drive fast enough.
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.\n-- Jeannette Rankin
You can observe a lot just by watching.\n-- Yogi Berra
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
You can't get there from here.
You can't mend a wristwatch while falling from an airplane.
You can't push on a string.
You can't run away forever, But there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.\n-- Jim Steinman, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
"You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten."\n-- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over"
You can't take it with you -- especially when crossing a state line.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.\n-- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad"
You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.\n-- Lois Platford
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.\n-- Lewis Carroll
You will always find something in the last place you look.
Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.
Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true.
Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus.
Your wig steers the gig.\n-- Lord Buckley
You may be marching to the beat of a different drummer, but you're still in the parade.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.\n-- Muriel Rukeyser
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.\n-- Jean-Paul Sartre
There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.\n-- Paul Shepard
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.\n-- Mona Caird, 1892
The first rule of all intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.\n-- Aldo Leopold, quoted in Donald Wurster's "Nature's Economy"
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.\n--Mahatma Gandhi
No people are all bad, just as none are all good. Tecumseh, (Shawnee) to his nephew Spemica Lawba 1790
My reason tells me that land cannot be sold - nothing can be sold but such  things as can be carried away.              Black Hawk, (Saulk)
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?                                       Tecumseh, (Shawnee)
Free yourself from negative influence. Negative thoughts are the old habits that gnaw at the roots of the soul. Moses Shongo, (Seneca)
...everything on this earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. Mourning Dove, (Salish 1888-1936)
The words fly away, the writings remain.
I am what you will be; I was what you are.
The people rule.
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.\n-- Virgil
