It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~Herman Melville

“It takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place.”
- The Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
- Emily Dickinson

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." ~From a headstone in Ireland (Post dedicated to my lovely friend, Hannah, and her family)

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses." -Francis Bacon, Sr.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -Nietzche

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." -Howard Zinn

dry seeds scatter
from my hand into the wind
one clings
as if to say there is in me
something yet to be
-Jeanne Emrich

"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales." -Aesop

"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to those who give it." -Chinese Cookie Fortune

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
-P. J. O'Rourke

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." -Angela Monet

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away." -Tommy Lasorda

"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart." - Unknown

"It takes a long time to become young."
- Pablo Picasso (Happy 30th Birthday to Jay!)

"Mankind is not evil, just... uninformed." -Professor X (X-Men)