A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman
He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone
I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself. ~Yoko Ono
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ~William Makepeace
Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert
A dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney
You are the energy, and the energy is you. ~Berri Clove
I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them. ~Anthony Clark
Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
It is always the secure who are humble. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. ~Curtis McDougall
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ~Socrates
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. ~Melanie Haiken, about yoga and anxiety, "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ~Thomas Gray
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce
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