Who knows

Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?

~Euripedes

Eternity

"Eternity is not endless duration but transcendence into the timeless."

--Deepak Chopra

Which form

Which form of proverb do you prefer?
Better late than never, or Better never than late?

~Lewis Carroll

There comes a pause

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

~Lewis Carroll

Ten men waiting

Ten men waiting for me at the door?
Send one home... I'm tired.

~Mae West

When women

When women go wrong,
men go right after them.

~Mae West

It's not

It's not the men in my life that count,
it's the life in my men.

~Mae West

She's the kind

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

~Mae West

When choosing

When choosing between two evils,
I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

~Mae West

When I'm good

When I'm good, I'm very good.
When I'm bad I'm better.

~Mae West

I believe

I believe in censorship...
I made a fortune out of it.

~Mae West

Soap

“What soap is to the body,
laughter is to the soul”

~Yiddish Proverb

OK boys

OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.

~John Dillinger

Now nobody get nervous

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

~John Dillinger

My buddies

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

~John Dillinger

I rob banks

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

~John Dillinger

All my life

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

~John Dillinger

What

What do you expect me to do about it?

~John Dillinger

They're not

They're not going to get me.

~John Dillinger

These few dollars

These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!

~John Dillinger

Our birth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come...

~William Wordsworth

You will come to know

"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make."

--Gorden B. Hinkley

Millions of spiritual creatures

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

~John Milton

Our doubts

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare

As soon as

"As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live."

- Goethe

Everybody wants

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

~Goethe

The consciousness

"The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is Love."

--Sri Nisargadatta

It is when

"It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists."

~Eckhart Tolle

Knowing others

"Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the centre and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever."

~Lao-tzu

Without knowing

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

~Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man's back

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

~Leo Tolstoy

Boredom

Boredom: the desire for desires.

~Leo Tolstoy

Your task

"Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

~Rumi

We are members

"We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole."

~J. Allen Boone

To serve each other

"To serve each other, to respect each other, to trust each other, to honor each other, to love each other, to cooperate with each other, to care for each other, to forgive one another, to focus on peoples' good, to laugh with one another, to learn from one another; to pray for each other - these are all acts of Love."

~Fools Crow, Lakota

We are all

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

~Peace Pilgrim

Miracles

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature.

~Saint Augustine

But if the archangel now

But if the archangel now, perilous, from behind the stars took even one step down toward us: our own heart, beating higher and higher, would beat us to death. Who are you?

~Rainer Maria Rilke

The mind's first step

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

~George Sheehan