“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918



Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot



Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.

The Bible
Matthew 17:20


“Pay no attention to what the critics say;
no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”

Jean Sibelius
Finnish Composer


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie
American Author


“The journey of a thousand miles must begin
with a single step.”

Lao Tzu
Chinese Philosopher

Those were really good e.m.e. I especially liked these

Personally I should not care for immortality in the least.There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.
H.P. Lovecraft

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Brilliant selcetion E.M.E

thanks for this one Nevermore -
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

it's dream a frightful dream... life is

from the movie the Gladiator

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

"Maybe that's what true love is: Giving up your illusions and loving the reality of an imperfect person."
- Theresa Alan

...I didn't recognize u with the new avatar.....

lol. I have a lot---rebel.

thanks, very nice

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job"

"A whale is only harpooned when it's spouting .Be careful what you say"


"Never say anything about yourself that you don't want to be true."

"Admit mistakes quickly.Most people try hard to cover them up."


"You either take control of your thouhts or they will control you"


"often doing less gets you more"

"Action is the antidote to dispair"
joan baez

God aids him, who changes"

"wisdom consists of not so much knowing what to do but knowing what to do next"

"what we perceive and understand depends on what we are"-huxley

"the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook"-w.james

"there can be no transformation of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."-carl jung

"vision is the art of seeing things invisible"--jonathan swift

"each man takes the limits of his own feild of vision for the limits of the world"---arthur schopenhauer



"life is a journey, not a guided tour"

"when writting in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters: one representing danger, the other --opportunity .J.F.K

"who we are looking for is who is looking"--saint francis of Assisi


"man's main task in life is to give birth to himself"--erich fromm

lol...i didnt really get this one

experience is something you don't get until just after you need it"


for every complex problem, there is a simple solution that is elegant, easy to understand, and wrong -----h.l.mencken


there is nothing more difficult to carry out , nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle , than to initiate a new order of things
---niccolo machiavelli


"from here that looks like a bucket of water, but from an ant's point of view , it's a vast ocean;from an elephant's point of view , just a cool drink and to a fish, of course,its home"
---the phantom toll booth


there are no wrong turns , only wrong thinking on the turns our life has taken
--Zen Saying

in the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
---oscar wilde

Thousands of starfish had washed ashore.A little girl began throwing them in the water so they wouldn't die
"Don't bother, Dear," her mother said. "It won't make a difference."
The girl stopped for a moment , looked at the starfish in her hand:
"It will make a difference to this one."


To be independent of public opinions is the first formal condition of achieving anything great---george wilhelm hegel

all adventures, especially into new territories, are scary ---sally ride

if you think you're too small to make a difference , you've never been in bed with a mosquito ----anita roddick

I always wanted to be somebody , but I should have been more specific---Lily tomlin

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

"man's main task in life is to give birth to himself"--erich fromm

Yea, that is phrased really strangely not quite sure I get it very well either O_o

"Admit mistakes quickly.Most people try hard to cover them up."

I always admit mistakes quickly(if I noticed I made them), it's true that's the best thing to do, at least I think

"You either take control of your thoughts or they will control you"

"vision is the art of seeing things invisible"--jonathan swift

^^Those two are really good ones

I got a couple quotes:

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they're open
----Tommy Dewar

I saw that one on a liquor commercial of all places

When hearing that Senator John McCain would follow him (Osama Bin Laden) to the gates of hell to catch him, Mike Huckabee said: "I will charge Hell with a water pistol, if necessary." On the Colbert Report.

The skies are marked with numberless sparks, each a fire, and every one a sign.
----Emperor Uriel Septim VII in the game "Oblivion"