I've Learned That...

... either you control your attitude or it controls you.
... sometimes I just need to be held.
... there are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
... money is a lousy way of keeping score.
... sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
... sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
... true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
... no matter how much I care; some people just don't care back.
... maturity has to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them.
... it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
... no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
... just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.

                                                                                                                            -- ?

Love does not dominate it cultivates.   -- J. W. Von Goethe

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The watches are all types of shapes and stones
Being broke is childish and I'm quite grown...
You cats is home screaming the fights on
I'm in the fifteen hundred seats watching Tyson.

                                                                     -- Jay Z

"Love gives you wings. It makes you fly. I don't even call it love. I call it Geronimo. When you're in love, you'll jump right from the top of the Empire State and you won't care, screaming "Geronimo" the whole way down. I love her so bad, I just... whoa, she wrecks me. I'd die for her." -- Jerry Fletcher, Conspiracy Theory                        

There is no joy, without pain
There is no love, without risk
There is no life, without living
So be free to not hesitate.

                                -- Bonit Sharma                 

There are more people who wish to be loved than are willing to love.    -- Nicolas Chamfort

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.  -- Walter Lippmann

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.   -- Henry David Thoreau

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.   -- Mark Twain

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.   -- Voltaire

Lot's of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. -- Christopher Darlington Morley            

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, un-resolvable, and necessary. -- Kathleen Norris                       

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.    -- Ashleigh Brilliant

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.   -- Harrold Coffin

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.   -- George Burns

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.  -- Stanislaw Lec

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.   -- Volitare (Francois Arouet)

To be absolutely certain about something, on must know everything or nothing about it.  -- Olin Miller

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.  -- Chinese Proverb

I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today.  -- Sheldon Mayre

The mic on LL's arm

4, 3, 2, 1
My young son's fantasize of borrowing flows,
Tell little shorty with the big mouth the bank is closed.
This symbol on my arm is off limit to challengers,
You hold and bust rusty swords I swing the Excalibur.
How dare you step up in my dimension.
Your little butt should be somewhere crying on detention.
Watch your mouth, better yet hold your tongue.
I'm a do this thing for free, this time, this one's for fun.
Blow you to pieces leave you covered in feces,
With one thesis, (LL Cool J is hard).
Every little boy wants to pick up the mic,
And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.
But that's like picking up a ball playing with Mike,
Swinging at Ken Griffey, or challenging Roy to a fight.
Snappin' you amateur MC's.
Don't you know I'm like the Dream Team touring overseas.
For rappers in my circle I'm a  deadly disease.
Ringmaster, bringing a tiger cub to his knees.
In the history of rap they've never seen such prominence,
Your naive confidence gets crushed by my dominance.
Now let's get back to this mic on my arm
If it ever left my side it'd transform into a time bomb.
You don't wanna barrow that, you want to idolize.
You don't wanna make me mad, brother, you wanna socialize.
And I'm daring every MC in the game
To play yourself and mention my mane.
I make a rhyme for every syllable in your name,
Go platinum for every time your grimy @ss was on the train.
Watch you mouth don't ever step out of line,
LL Cool J, greatest of all time.

-- LL Cool J                            

"I'll tear down the buildings just to get through the door."   -- G. Graffin

"I don't want you to get it confused, I ripped it down,
Like I ain't got nothing to loose."

-- Jay Z                                                                                                          

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."  -- Chinese Fortune Cookie

Eagles may sour, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Choose your friends carefully, your enemies will choose you.
If you ain't making waves, your not kicking hard enough.
The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
Don't get mad you don't get what you want...be glad you don't get what you deserve.

-- ?                                                                           

The baby cried because he didn't have shoes, he stopped when he met a man without feet.   -- ?                  

If there's one thing I learned in college, it's that I'm never the only one.    -- Matt Ammerman

IMPOSSIBLE

...Fusion of the five elements, to search for the higher intelligence
Women walk around celibate, living irrelevant.
The most benevolent king, communicating through your dreams
Mental pictures been painted, a lots heard and seen everywhere,
Throughout your surrounding atmosphere: troposphere, thermosphere, stratosphere
Can you imagine from one single idea, everything appeared here
Understanding makes my truth, crystal clear
Innocent black immigrants locked in housing tenements
Eighty-five percent tenants depending welfare recipients
Stapletons been stamped at the concentration camp
At night, I walk through the third eye, as bright as a street lamp
Electric mic 'crows', all body 'clothes' taking telescope pictures of globe,
Babies getting pierced with microchips stuffed inside their earlobes,
Then their exam examined, blood contaminated, vaccinated, lives fabricated
Exaggerated authorization, Food and Drug Administration
Test and poison the prison population
My occupation is to stop the inauguration of Satin
Some claim that it was Regan, so I come to slay men
Like Bartholomew, cause every particle is physical article
Was diabolical to the lab visible molecule
I space night like ROM, consume planets like Unicron
Blasting photon bombs from the arm the Galvitron.

-- Wu Tang                                          

"Speed: the thing about speed is that you can't catch the people who've attained it to ask them how they've gotten so fast.  You chase them day after day, until you find your self getting closer.  Then you catch them, and realize that your question has just been answered."   -- Mountain biker quote

Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when they are open.   -- Sir James Dewar

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.  -- Samuel Butler

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a food example.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.

-- Mark Twain                                      

All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.  -- Jane Wagner / Lily Tomling

MANIFEST

You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned
I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned
And time it turned, he tried to burn me like a perm
Though my eyes saw the deception, my heart wouldn't let me learn
From um, some, dumb woman, was I,
And every time he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.
My heart must have died a thousand deaths
Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath
Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest
I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest
Pain suppressed, will lead to cardiac arrest
Diamonds deserved diamonds, but he convinced me I was worth less when my peoples would protest,
I told them mind their business, cause my s*** was complex, more than just the sex
I was blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed
I'd spend nights clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test
I was God's best contemplating death with a Gillette
But no man is ever worth the paradise manifest.

-- Lauryn Hill                              

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.  -- T. H. White

"...We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."   -- Martin Luther King

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Elliot

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. -- Joe Louis

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.  -- Joseph Stalin

"The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be.  I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact.  Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it."

"I am privileged to have played basketball."

-- Michael Jordan's Retirement (1/13/99)                             

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