quotes on rose day

...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 18



If you are happy, go skipping. If you are sad, go skipping! ~Terri Guillemets



It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop



Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ~Marcus Aurelius



My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon



Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. ~Author Unknown



An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?" ~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek



Goodness is beauty in the best estate. ~Christopher Marlowe



We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche



Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb



You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown



No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton



It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. ~Rupert Hart-Davis



Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie



Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown



Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts



Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ~Sydney J. Harris



To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex. ~Lily Tomlin



I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. ~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!