We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right. - Anne Lamott

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? - Woody Allen

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions. - Gordon B. Hinckley

If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers. - Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. - Bob Dylan

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. - Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. - Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all - it's just your sucky personality.

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. - Jorge Luis Borges

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right. - Evanescence

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. - Jalaluddin Rumi