Quotes and thoughts and stuff

To be alive To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but... If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

The desire to be loved is the last illusion: Give it up and you'll be free.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether be a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Do it or don't do it- you will regret both.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Is is better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.

Who we are, and who we need to be to survive are very different things.

Okay, tell me everything I'm not, You think I didn't know those things? Always been a little lost and I still might be. Life's hard, but it's okay.

I swear to God I'm trying, but I don't know how to be, How to be a good friend to me.

I can see the lighthouse through the smoke. Everything is lost, I know. Underneath the roaring of the storm, I can hear the breaking of the dawn. Can you see the broken rays of light, Caught into the dead of night? And I know that I'll see you again.

Yet from those flames, No light, but rather darkness visible.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Solitude encircles and engirdles him, always more threatening, more throttling, more heart-oppressing, that terrible goddess and mater saeva cupidinum - but who knows nowadays what solitude is?...

In short, I still live; and life, in spite of ourselves, is not devised by morality; it demands illusion, it lives by illusion...