when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

Henry Miller

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Luciano Pavarotti

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Martha Beck

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

Evangeline Lilly

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

The awakening has begun!

William Dempsey

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Marquis De Custine

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

My Hopes are so High that your Kiss might Kill me So wont you Kill me So I die Happy.

Dashboard Confessional