stepfwd’s most loved Quotables

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

Life is like riding a bicycle; in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.

I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter & those who matter don't mind.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, [...] lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.