Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The older order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

Sean Lennon

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.

Steve Maraboli

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Gary Zukav

To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.

Eliza Mada Dalian

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Patrick Henry

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Dennis P. Kimbro