Quotes

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. -- David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome. -- Marion Parker

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. -- Piero Ferrucci

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. -- Novalis

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. -- Emily Dickinson, No. 1333

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. -- Henry Miller

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. -- Kathleen Norris

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. -- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes! -- Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Jules et Joel, 1991

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. -- Robert Ingersoll

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. -- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. -- Trey Parker & Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X

Without discipline, there's no life at all. -- Katharine Hepburn

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. -- P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. -- William Wirt

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' -- Cary Grant

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. -- Mark Twain

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. -- Thich Nhat Hanh

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. -- William Langland

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. -- Yugoslav Proverb

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. -- Joseph Farrell

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. -- Whitney Young

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. -- Kurdish Proverb

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Our children change us…whether they live or not. -- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. -- Monica Baldwin

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. -- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'

The way to become boring is to say everything. -- Voltaire

Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. -- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. -- Toni Cade Bambara

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. -- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. -- Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. -- Margaret Fuller

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. -- Ecclesiastes

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. -- John Stuart Mill