Also, invisibledon, I didn't leave you forever. I just took a little break. Don't hate me, I'm still reading, just not as feverishly as before. Plus, Dawson's Creek is almost over. :)

THE QUOTES:

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
Helen Keller

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Things have a wonderful way of working themselves out, regardless of how you may plan them to the contrary.
Pacey Witter - Dawson’s Creek

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

The only true currency in this bankrupt world...is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Lester Bangs - Almost Famous

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Clap hard Dawson, you may be Tinkerbell's last hope.
Joey Potter - Dawson’s Creek

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
Alice - Alice in Wonderland

Remember, the real lady is what's underneath the mask.
An American Tale: Fievel Goes West

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

It does not do to dwell on dreams . . . and forget to live.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Playing music is supposed to be fun. It's about heart, it's about feelings, moving people, and something beautiful, and it's not about notes on a page.
Mr. Holland’s Opus

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.
Tinkerbell - Hook

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

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin

Dream as if you'll live forever; Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean

For my part I know nothing without certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
Maya Angelou

Like I could put anything more profound....

~G

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