tenshi91’s most recent Quotables

Beancounter said I couldn't fire a man just for being in a wheelchair - did it anyway, ramps are expensive.

A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one life the aching
Or cool one pain
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone.The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know, it was a beautiful day.

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.”

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Hobbes: Do you think there is a God?
Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me.

I’m an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people...

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.