Favorite/Best Quotes

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. -Jacques Yves Cousteau

"I found my destiny, not in far off places but within myself. " - Wild Hearts Cant Be Broken

"I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not." --- Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails

"You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by. / And when two lovers woo, / They still say, "I love you" / On that you can rely / No matter what the future brings-... " CASABLANCA

"Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel." -Jacques Yves Cousteau

We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting." -Jacques Yves Cousteau

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on."

"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."

"We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved."

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


" You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die. " - CASABLANCA

You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart. - Casablanca


Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. - Victoria Holt

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about" - Unkown


Never be afraid to try, remember...
Amateurs built the ark
Professionals built the Titanic
- Unknown


Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?" - Peter Thomas, student



"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go"


"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

"Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry " - Mark Twain


"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak". - Sun Tzu


"I do it because i can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't."


"The largest living land mammal is the absent mind." - Capt. Beefheart


"Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart." -Joni Mitchell


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


"Everything you read in the newspaper is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you have first-hand knowledge." - Erwin Knoll


Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement." - Frank Zappa

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." - Malcolm x

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - Wizard of Oz

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W.M. Luis


"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein


"I would like to be able to admire a person's opinions as I would their dog - without being expected to take it home with me." - Frank A. Clark


"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Lao-Tzu

"A little learning is a dangerous thing" - Poe

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Poe


"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat." - Kippling

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.- Sir Francis Bacon



So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. - Confucious


"If everything is under control, you are going too slow." - Mario Andretti


"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." - Marian Wright Edelman


We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. - Uta Hagen


"You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it." - Earvin Magic Johnson


"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon HIll

""We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s. I didn’t quite build St Paul’s, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved." - Lord Thorneycroft

"For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts." - Conan The Barbarian

"Magic is the bloodstream of the universe. Forget all you know, or think you know. All that you require is your intuition. " _ Willow

"So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Today it's Wheaties boxes. Tomorrow it's video games and action figures. The sky's the limit! " - D2

"I got it, Eric, I'm cool... As we come to the end of our school years, we find ourselves remembering the good times, and trying to forget the bad ties. And as we start to look ahead, we start to worry. We think "What am I going to do? Where am I going to be in ten years?" But I say to you, "Hey, look at me!" Please, don't worry so much. Because when you get right down to it, none of us have very long on this earth. Life is fleeting, like a shooting star in the sky. Whenever you see a shooting star light up the sky with its brilliance, think of me, and try to make each and every moment of our lives as spectacular as possible. I know I did. I made it, Mom. I'm a grown-up. " - Jack

"You wouldn't be goin' around talkin' about takin' these stupid shop courses if I was. It's like God gave you something man, all those stories you can make up. And He said, "this is what we got for ya kid, try not to lose it." Kids lose everything unless there's someone there to look out for them. And if your parents are too fucked up to do it, the maybe I should!" - Stand By Me

"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!", "On Golden Pond

"ou can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." _ Winnie The Pooh

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." _ Samuel Clemmons

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts

"Begin with the end in mind." - Stephen Covey

""Winning without dignity or grace is not winning." - Stepmom

""People are always telling you that change is a good thing, but what they're really saying is that something that you didn't want to happen just happened." " - YOu Got Mail

""Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." - The Rock

"A thinning gene pool is a terrible thing to witness. Ah, civilization's crowning achievement: the cocktail hour." - The Love Letter

" "In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others." - Gregory Scott Reid

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later"- Od Mandino

""Never, never,never give up." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people." - Mother Theresa

"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely." - Leo Buscagila

"No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now." - Leo Buscagila

"I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes." - Kahlil Gibran

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." - Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Earl Nightingale

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements"

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." William Arthur Ward

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

"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

"Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals" - Deepak Chopra

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

"Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs."


"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." - Malcolm Forbes

"if it's not over and done with forgiven and forgotten its still there"

" love grabs hold with terrible violence. love always does its a bad habit but lobe cant kick it it comes whether you wait it or not."

"Now there's an intelligently biting remark wrought with wit and irony."

"the best thing you can do is imagine there isnt anyone but you then you can't be judged by others standards"

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine"

As a diver you are weightless and can move in all directions. You approach the freedom of a bird as you move in three dimensions in a fluid environment." - Dennis Graver

"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!" ~Logan Pearsall Smith

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."- Judy Garland

"The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."- Theodore Roosevelt

"When one man, for whatever reason, has an opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."- Jacques-Yves Cousteau Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, "I'm still alive — a miracle." And so I keep on pushing.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around". ~Leo Buscaglia


** Dont be hard on yourself, we all make mistakes; instead learn from them.** Learn to embrace your imperfections, how else can you embrace anyone else's? ** Beauty is only skin deep, its whats on the inside that counts the most ** Love is love we are all humans and have the desire to love and be loved ** Don't sit around and watch other people's lives go by, instead get up and live life through your own eyes and experiences ****** I have been on tour selling merch multiple times before.. if any band needs a merch girl for tour, I would love to go with you****

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho