re: What's your favorite quote?

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending." -JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." -Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." -George RR Martin, A Dance With Dragons

"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." -Victor Hugo, preface to Les Misérables

"Woman test pilot who fly jet plane upside down bound to have crackup".
Confucius

"Lack of preparation on your part does not call for an emergency on mine"

"I can deal with failure. What I cannot deal with is not trying"

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-"A tyrant will always find the pretext for their tyranny"

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-"Sharks are born swimming"

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-"Without music, life would be a mistake" -Neitszche

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-"The ego is never satisfied. Now that I live to please my soul instead of my ego, I'm a lot happier and at peace with who I am." -unknown

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-"The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging" -unknown

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-"A truly rich man never tells you he's rich." -unknown

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-"He who tries and fails is infinitely better than he who never tries at all." -unknown

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-"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

To be great is to be misunderstood."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Series I (Self-Reliance)

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The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him most about humanity and he responded:

"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."

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"I quit drinking, smoking, and heavy eating...and in two weeks I had lost 14 days."
-unknown

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"Never try to understand women. Women understand women and they all hate each other"
-unknown

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"I never had a problem with drugs, I had a problem with cops" -Keith Richards

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"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." -Whitney Young

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"You're in a big pile of shite and you ain't got the shoes for it" -Bourne Supremacy

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"No man fears to do that which he knows he does well" -Marvin Lewis

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are all in harmony" -Ghandi

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"Certain people you just can't trust, you know Luke? Never trust anyone who doesn't smoke pot or listen to Dylan. Never trust anyone who doesn't like the beach. Never, EVER, EVER trust anyone who says they don't like dogs! You meet someone who doesn't like dogs you alert the authorities IMMEDIATELY and you sure as shite don't MARRY THEM!"

-Dr. Squires from The Wackness

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"Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried." -Thoreau

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“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus

And just because it cracks me up:
When Voltaire was on his deathbed a priest came to him and said, “You should renounce the devil,” and Voltaire replied, “This is no time to be making enemies.”

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Living well is the greatest revenge.

Applies to so many situations I have with terrible people.

The heights by great men, reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night.

to be balanced by:

If you put your nose to the grindstone rough
and hold it down there long enough,
You'll soon forget that there are such things
As brooks that babble and birds that sing,
And your whole world will be composed
Of you, the stone and your ground down nose.

There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." — John Muir