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"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one."
Bertrand Russell

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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”

Denis Waitley

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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
Gordon R. Dickson

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“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.”

Mae West

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"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

Henri Matisse

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“The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.”

James Fixx

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"Life on the planet is born of woman." ;)
Adrienne Rich

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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

Oscar Wilde

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"Being real is what is important."
Gavin Rossdale

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"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

Lucille Ball

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection”
Anais Nin

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“Britain's gnawing hunger for retrospection is of Proustian proportions; historical confections of past glory are always being sugared up and nibbled at somewhere in the land.”

Francis X. Clines

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"Buy land, they are not making it anymore"
Mark Twain

Wrong there mr. Twain, look at what "we" (ahem, it wasn't me :angel2:) Dutch did and what is happening in Dubai e.a. right now :biggrin:

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“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.”

Groucho Marx

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"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."

Stefan Zweig

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“I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.”

Oscar Wilde

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“Eternity is really long, especially near the end”
Woody Allen

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"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

William Blake

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“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen

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"The fun thing is that no one cares if you mess up. A lot of times, I'm tired and I don't want to go. But when you get there you have a blast."

Pat Buckley

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"It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff."
David Ellis

Yes, it sounds like fun David ;)

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“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.”

James Womack

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“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Douglas H. Everett

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“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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Wow, that is a good one :)

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life (...) It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman

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Thanks :biggrin:

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

Saint Augustine

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"Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart."

Phoebe Cary

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“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.”

Michael Nolan

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"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."

Hermann Broch

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“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”

Julia Roberts

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"Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good."
Amy Lowell

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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

Oscar Wilde

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“When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense”
Edward Abbey

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"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."

Ralph Cudworth

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“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
Virgil Thomson

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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

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That is a classic ;)

“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.”
Seneca

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“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”

Albert Einstein

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I can´t find who said this, but I really like it:

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.”