You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... William Shakespeare When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Umberto Eco Pendulul lui Foucault In vid, orice punct material greu, suspendat la extremitatea unui fir neextensibil si fara greutate, care nu sufera rezistenta aerului si nu produce frecare in punctual lui de sprijin, ar fi oscilat in mod regulat o vesnicie.

Nu se poate scapa de un infinit fugind catre un alt infinit, nu poti scapa de revelatia identicului iluzionandu-te ca poti intalni diversitatea. Incredulitatea nu exclude curiozitatea, o intareste. Neincrezator in inlantuirile de idei, iubeam polifonia ideilor. Tu traiesti din suprafete. Cand pari profund e pentru ca incrustezi in ele multe lucruri si injghebezi aparenta a ceva solid un solid care daca ar fi solid n-ar putea sta in picioare. Pentru a te elibera de tirania ingerilor, stapani ai cosmosului, trebuie sa infaptuiesti orice marsavie, eliberandu-te de datoriile facute fata de univers si de propriul trup, si numai comitand toate faptele sufletul se poate elibera de propriile-I patimi, regasind puritatea originara. Fac parte dintr-o generatie pierduta, si ma regasesc numai cand assist, in tovarasia altora, la singuratatea semenilor mei.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. ~Helen Rowland We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder. ~Paul Vitale The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an

amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. ~Charlotte Dacre, People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. Due to circumstances within my control, tomorrow will be cancelled. Due to recent cutbacks and until further notice, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. I've given up the search for reality; now I'm just looking for a good fantasy. In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world. If you're one in a million, there are six thousand people exactly like you.

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list This place is so weird that the cockroaches have moved next door. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends I started with nothing and still have most of it left I'm only wearing black untill they make something darker On the other hand, you have different fingers. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? "I can resist everything except temptation." "What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic." "Lifes Tough, get a helmet!" "You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter." "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." "I intend to live forever. So far, so good." "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." "Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids." "A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch." "An alarm clock is a device that wakes you up just in time to go back to sleep."