Kahlil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

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Saul Bellow

"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger."

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May Sarton

"We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment."

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Wendy Wasserstein

"No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone."

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#190 Making disgusting slurping noises while eating a really juicy peach

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable."

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Heather Armstrong

"Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing."

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Agnes de Mille

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."

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#191 That bend in the pipe under the sink

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#192 A la moding anything

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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

"Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children."

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Joan McIntosh

"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'"

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Victor Hugo

"To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation."

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Jennifer Hudson

"'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal�especially in the beginning."

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Gordon Atkinson

"When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things."

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Swedish Proverb

"Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees."

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Thomas Fuller

"Enquire not what boils in another's pot."

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#193 The moment after the lightning and before the thunder

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Ann Radcliffe

"What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?"

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M. Scott Peck

"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience."

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Garth Brooks

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."

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John Ruskin

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."

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#194 When insects are struggling to do something and you help them

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Barack Obama

"If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from."

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W. Somerset Maugham

"I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating."

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James Lileks

"I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe."

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Herbert Bayard Swope

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

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Anton Chekhov

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."

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Robin Norwood

"Make your own recovery the first priority in your life."

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German Proverb

"Who begins too much accomplishes little."

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Dodie Smith

"I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't."

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Jeanne Moreau

"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."

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Colby Dorr Dam

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement."

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Hazrat Inayat Khan

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."

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Horace Mann

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."

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#195 Burps that taste good

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#196 Accidental snorts

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J. K. Rowling

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default."

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Sir Winston Churchill

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

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Confucius

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

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Joyce Carol Oates

"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it."

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Tom Clancy

"We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try."

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Heinrich Heine

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."

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Sydney Smith

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

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Al Franken

"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."

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#197 Chugging cold milk after chocolate cake

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Sean Stewart

"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down."

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Benjamin Franklin

"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."

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Edward Fitzgerald

"Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old."

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Burnadette Devlin

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

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#198 Becoming friends with the other guy who doesn’t know anyone here

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#199 That secretary who actually runs things around here

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L. M. Montgomery

"ALL things great are wound up with all things little."

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English Proverb

"Don't fall before you're pushed."

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Scott Adams

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

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Fred R. Barnard

"One picture is worth a thousand words."

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Lane Olinghouse

"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."

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Og Mandino

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."

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Pierre Charron

"He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it."

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Faith Popcorn

"The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office)."

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#200 Actually making the right amount of spaghetti

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Booker T. Washington

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

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Oprah Winfrey

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."

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Dr. Robert Schuller

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

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Peter Drucker

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

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Robert F. Kennedy

"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."

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Spanish Proverb

"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."

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Claude Swanson

"When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats."

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Bette Davis

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."

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#201 When you owe someone $10 and someone else owes you $10 and they just give $10 to the person you owe instead

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Walt Whitman

"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."

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Rick Pitino

"When you build bridges you can keep crossing them."

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Thomas Jefferson

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

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George C. Marshall

"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."

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John Muir

"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself."

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Charles Churchill

"Genius is of no country."

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Martha Graham

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

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William James

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

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#202 Pulling a shrimp out of its shell with your teeth without the tail breaking off

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Melanie Benjamin

"It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable."

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Virgil

"They can do all because they think they can."

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Marion Parker

"Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome."

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Lady Duff-Gordon

"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it."

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#203 When everything you’re cooking gets done at the same time

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Olga Ilyin

"It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need."

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Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

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Truman Capote

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

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Elizabeth Janeway

"We don't get offered crises, they arrive."

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#204 Opening security doors without using your hands

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Ellen DeGeneres

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."

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Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

"Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night."

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Bible

"Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."

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Jules Renard

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

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Jennifer Hudson

"'If it�s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down."

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Kathryn L. Nelson

"I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger."

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Gordon Atkinson

"Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'"

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Marie De France

"A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats."

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Joss Whedon

"I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated."

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Tony Benn

"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."

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Jack London

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

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Lord Chesterfield

"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves."

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#205 The person lying down at the front of the sports team photo

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#206 When someone returns your wallet

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Woodrow Wilson

"America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man."

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Agnes de Mille

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how�We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

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Cullen Hightower

"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."

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Wilbur Wright

"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high."

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Lois McMaster Bujold

"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."

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Jonathan Swift

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

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Swedish Proverb

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."

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#207 Vacuuming up a spider web

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Henry Adams

"Friends are born, not made."

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Anna Quindlen

"A finished person is a boring person."

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Will Rogers

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

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Lord Acton

"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

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#208 Cleaning all that gunk out of your mouse ball

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John Masefield

"I have seen flowers come in stony places/ And kind things done by men with ugly faces/ And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,/ So I trust too."

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Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

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Malcolm X

"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."

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#209 Baby dreams

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Ernst Haas

"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."

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Horace

"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."

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Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

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Dorothy L. Sayers

"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."

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W. Somerset Maugham

"An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."

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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full."

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Meri Williams

"Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you�ll feel alive."

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Aesop

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

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Mary Caroline Davies

"May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting."

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Dorothy Fields

"Love is the reason for it all."

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Dag Hammarskjold

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

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#210 When one of your paintings or school tests makes it onto the fridge

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Albert Schweitzer

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."

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Andre Gide

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."

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Baltasar Gracian

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

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Michael Pritchard

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

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#211 When you’re walking next to a fence or railing and you stick your finger or a stick in there so it clangs over and over

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Barack Obama

"There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair./ The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there./ There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem./ But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years � block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."

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Walt Whitman

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"

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Marie Beyon Ray

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."

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George Sand

"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides."

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#212 When the guy who borrowed your pen actually gives it back

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