At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
-- Barbara Bush

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
-- Helen Keller

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
-- Sara Paddison

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
-- Ruth Gordon

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
-- Author Unknown

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
-- Groucho Marx

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
-- Robert Fulghum

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
-- Anaias Nin

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
-- Katharine Hepburn

If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future.
-- Majjhima Nikaya

It's never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.
-- Nancy Thayer

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
-- Blaise Pascal

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Marston

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-- Betty Smith

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
-- Sophia Loren

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
-- Author Unknown

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
-- Ralph Blum

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-- John Quincy Adams

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-- Dalai Lama

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Allan K. Chalmers

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
-- Orlando A. Battista

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Lady Dorothy Nevill

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-- Alice Walker

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
-- Goethe

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
-- Phyllis Bottome

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
-- Faith Baldwin

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?
-- Katherine Graham

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
-- Fredrick Koeing

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
-- Thich Nhat Hahn

Whoever I am and whatever I am doing, some kind Excellence is within my reach.
-- John W. Gardiner

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
--Kahlil Gibran

Awesome! Facebook Statuses sorted for the next few months! Heehee

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

OMG so true

My personal collection of favorites:

"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin

"The day is coming when all men must choose for themselves whether to follow the path of righteousness, to place themselves in harm's way in the name of what is right and good. The truest test of a man’s character must always be in his willingness to lay down his life for the good of humanity. To fight the good fight. To call down the heavens upon his head, and stand unmolested and unashamed, in the presence of his god."
- Edward Hawker
- The Code of Rebellion

"Give a man some bullets, he will want a gun. Give a man that gun, and he will be handing out the bullets"
- Sam 'Serious' Stone

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein

"No sense crying over every mistake, just keep on trying until you run out of cake."
- Unknown Author

"You live life light, you don't live at all!"
- André Pierre Smuts

"If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike."
- Unknown author

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind"
- John F. Kennedy

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
- Arthur C. Clarke

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."
- Ronald Reagan

"You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long."
- Boris Yeltsin

"Alright, listen up!! If anyone so much as FARTS there's going to be ten thousand rounds fired off before they can say 'It wasn't me!"
- Unknown Author

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
- Unknown Author

"Give a little love and it all comes back to you"
- Unknown Author

"In the modern world, politicians fight wars with words, Words like... Tomahawk Missile, Scud Launcher, Carpet Bombing..."
- Unknown Author

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
- Robert Frost

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
- Ulysses S. Grant

"Tell a man there is 300 Billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it, and he'll have to touche it to be sure."
- Unknown Author

"These guys have seriously lost their heads."
- Sam 'Serious' Stone

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."
- Unknown Author

"Feel the rear and do it anyway."
- Unknown Author

"I saw the light at the end of the tunnel... Why did no one warn me it was a train!?"
- Unknown Author

"I wanted to kill the sexiest person alive then I realized... Oh yeah! Suicide is a crime!"
- Unknown Author

"Every girl wants one guy to meet all her needs, while every guy wants all the girls to meet his one need"
- Unknown Author

"Sticks and stones may break my bones. But whips and chains excite me!"
- Unknown Author

"If the only possible way we can be together is in my dreams... Then I'll sleep forever."
- Unknown Author

"The opposite sex is the most dangerous and addictive drug out there, but the high is unlike anything else"
- Unknown Author

"One step closer to Hell and two steps closer to glory!"
- Unknown Author

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"Death solves all problems - No man, no problem."
- Joseph Stalin

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance."
- Joseph Stalin

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.'
- Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
- Albert Einstein

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
- Albert Einstein

"The secret to creativity is in knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein

"Not everything that can be counted, counts. Not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein

"Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people."
- Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism. How passionately I hate them!"
- Albert Einstein

"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatives service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."
- Albert Einstein

"It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel"."
- Albert Einstein

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."
- Albert Einstein

"Our Path To destruction may not lie in the weapons we conceive, but rather in the violence of our hearts."
- Unknown Author

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Was not the lute that soothes your soul, carved out with knives? Was not the cup which quenches your thirst first burned in the potter's oven?"
- Khalil Gibran

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- Mahatma Ghandi

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."
- Unknown Author

"More conflicted than a furry at a petting zoo."
- Unknown Author

"The Omega Position" is a sex move that collapses space-time to a single point which then expands and cools to form a new universe! That’s why they call it the "big bang!"
- Unknown Author

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down and yelled up to the heavens, "Why me God?" and God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
- Stephen King.

"The Universe is a big place populated by stars and thoroughly confused humans."
- Avi Abrams

"We simply do not understand our place in the universe
and have not the courage to admit it"
- Barry Lopez

"Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together."
- Alan Watts

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.
But the combination is locked up in the safe."
- Peter De Vries

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
- C.S. Lewis

"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."
- Victor Hugo

"The universe is full of magical things,
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts

"The Meaning of Life:
Sometimes it’s a chicken
Sometimes it’s a chair
Sometimes it’s a piece of cheese
Suspended in the air."
- Edward Monkton

"Thick girls vs. thin girls? Think of it this way, Men like meat, dogs like bones."
- Unknown Author

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible "
- Oscar Wilde.

"I’m more woman than you can handle, and more man than you'll ever be."
- Lola
- Kinky Boots

"Nuke them until they glow and shoot them in the dark."
- Disce Pati