I went to the woods because I
wanted to live deliberately...
I wanted to live deep and suck
out all the marrow of life!
To put to rout all that was not life...
And not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
-Henry Thoreau
Everything we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe
I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the Truth
instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
no more lies
I wanna shut the door
and open up my mind.
-Linkin Park
Have you heard about the words that appeared in the spiders web?
asked Mrs. Arable, nervously.
Yes, replied the doctor.
Well, do you understand it?
Understand what?
Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spiders web?
Oh no, said the doctor. I dont understand it, but for that matter, I dont
understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the
words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out
that the web itself was a miracle.
-EB White
To laugh open and much
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children and to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends
To appreciate beauty
To find the best in others
To give ones self
To leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed social condition,
To have played and Laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation,
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It costs so much to be a full human being that few have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. one needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
-Morris West
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
-Anonymous
