"I may despise what you say,
but I will defend to the death
your right to say it."
-Voltaire
"They say that we are born
to burn.
They say that we must give.
They say that people live
and learn.
Some people only live and
live.
You don't know that I come
here.
If you did you would know
why,
But you have closed your eyes."
"I grieve, and dare not show
my discontent;
I love, and yet am forced
to seem to hate;
I do, yet dare not say I ever
meant;
I seem stark mute, yet inwardly
I do prate;
I am, and not; I freeze and
yet am burned;
Since from myself, my other
self I turned."
-Queen Elizabeth
I
"I will not forget my voice
as I whisper into the winds."
"Some things have to be believed
to be seen."
"It's the little things we
do and say
that mean so much as we go
our way.
One kindly deed can lift a
load,
from weary shoulders on the
road."
-Willa Hoey
"If you're not afraid to face
the music,
you may some day be the leader
of the band."
"Young people are the leaders
of tomorrow,
but we sometimes wonder whether
they're going to be followed
or chased."
"There are two ways of spreading
light;
to be the candle of the mirror
that receives it."
-Edith Wharton
"A candle burnt at both ends
may shed a brighter light,
but the darkness that follows
is for a longer time."
-Gabrielle "CoCo"
Chanel
"A good reason to have dreams
is that in dreams
you don't have to have reasons."
"And the light shineth in
darkness,
and the darkness comprehended
it not."
"Who you are is more important
than who you become."
"I complained because I had
no shoes
until I met a man with no
feet."
"Lord, what fools these mortals
be!"
-Shakespeare
"Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Life was made to be lived."
"If you want happiness for
an hour
. . . take a nap.
If you want happiness for
a day
. . . go fishing.
If you want happiness for
a month
. . . get married.
If you want happiness for
a year
. . . inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for
a lifetime
. . . help someone else."
"You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon
"To act is easy . . . to think
is hard."
-Goethe
