Khail's Quote Corner: January 2009

"Learn to *see* what you have drawn, not what you want your drawing to be." - onewingedtenchi

"Nothing is true; everything is permitted." - The Assassins

"Twenty-two years ago, I stood where I stand now and watched my loved ones die, betrayed by those I had called friends.

Vengeance clouded my mind. It would have consumed me, were it not for the wisdom of a few strangers, who taught me to look past my instincts. They never preached answers, but guided me to learn from myself.

We don’t need anyone to tell us what to do; not Savonarola, not the Medici. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose, whatever you think is true that makes us human...

There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else." - Ezio Auditore (AC2).

"If someone says 'I love you' and you don't feel the same way, just say 'I love YouTube' really fast."

"Enjoy this holiday season like the last.. with love, the Mayans" - uberhumor.com

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind not with it." - IdolBin Thoughts

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - IdolBin Thoughts

"The only paradox of this world is, you know the world with your 5 basic sense organs, and also you know those organs through themselves!" - IdolBin Thoughts

"Simplicity is the most beautiful thing to have, but the most complex thing on earth to achieve." - IdolBin Thoughts

"Humans are just like coals. Burn them at 500 degrees for hours, you get ashes. Burn them at 2500 degrees for million years you get diamonds." - IdolBin Thoughts

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - IdolBin Thoughts

"You have to love what you do. If you don't, it's a waste of time. If you love it, it never feels like work." Rihanna (Reagan)

"Accepting a job and what they pay per hour means you are allowing someone else to determine how much you are worth." - Z-min

"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back." - Unknown

"I'm thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them and lead by their example; where ever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson, or I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept; things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go." - AJ Cook (JJ - Criminal Minds S06E02)

"Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, the path we follow is always of our own choosing, we should never allow our fears, or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny cannot be changed but it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." - Timothy McGee (NCIS S07E07)

"Scars remind us where we've been, they don't have to dictate where we're going."

Dale Turner mused "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.” - Irish quote

“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” - Henry David Thoreau

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” - Henry David Thoreau

“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.” - Henry David Thoreau

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise” - Oscar Wilde

“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm S. Forbes

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.” - Malcolm S. Forbes

“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.”

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you"

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

"The players may have changed, but the game is still the same."

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than remember me and cry.”

“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

If she/thou loves me only in my dreams then let me sleep forever.

"Light and Dark are two different things but we need both. For too much light burns us, while in darkness we cannot see. But together we have shade."

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them." - Albert Einstein

"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue." - Francis Bacon

"In the end we will not remember the insults of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew." - Albert Einstein

"Life without complications is nothing more than a fake smile..."

"Don't waste your time on someone who isn't willing to waste their time on you."

"A single quote of wisdom, is the summary of a lifetime of experiences."

"The easiest way to get into trouble is to be right at the wrong time."

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right." - Winston Churchill

"Always keep your ideals high enough that you have to keep stretching to reach them."

"The love you can't have lasts the longest, feels the strongest & hurts the most." - Yulia

"The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why study?" - Student under stress

"There is no reason to fear the dark, you should only fear what it hides." - Silent Hill

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep." - Yiddish proverb

"When everything you've been told is a lie nothing hurts more than the truth." - Working designs

Life is to short to drink bad wine.

In Unity Comes Peace.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Only in Darkness one can Learn to Appreciate the Light, Just like the Stars in the Heavens of a very Dark Night.

"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

"Just because things are the way they are, doesn't mean they should be."

"To succeed in Life, one must have a clear picture of himself in the future."

"Love is not finding someone to live with, It's finding someone you can't live without." - Rafael Ortiz

"Nothing beats a good ol' well oiled machine."

"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." - Zen proverb

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams." - Henry David Thoreau

"Understanding is the three-edged sword; your side, their side and the truth." - Babylon 5, Ambassador Kosh

"Dreaming of the person you want to be is a waste of the person you are."

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else." - Erma Bombeck

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Confucius

"You all laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you are all the same."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet, than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Illusions By Richard Bach

"There are only two ways to solve a problem. Either you alter the problem to fit you, or you alter yourself to fit the problem."

"No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home." - David O. McKay (Educator)

"If you can put into words why you love a person, then you do not love that person enough."

"Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up."

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent (Dark Knight)

"Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."

"Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies." - Aristotle

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." - Charles Caleb Colton