These are the best of the quotes Ive collected in the past year. Thanks tons to Miss Rachel Fisher for her Words of Life, where I acquired a good many of these, and thanks to Rosemarie as well.  Also visit Darxuss page for interesting quotes.

Here's something really neat--go to the Random Quote Generator,  i swiped a bunch of these from there.

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
--Thomas Babington Macaulay

"A good writer should be so simple that he has no faults, only sins."
--W. B. Yeats (of course he would say that)  

"I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just assholes."

 
"Everyone is born with a photographic memory. Some people just don't have any film."

The valley spirit never dies;
It is the woman, primal mother.
Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth.
It is like a veil barely seen.
Use it; it will never fail.
--Tao Teh Ching
Lao Tzu

 
I am the creation from the beginning
Everything in the creation is me.
All creation is growing toward me.
It is begun in ecstasy
It is continued in ecstasy
It is sustained in ecstasy
It will end in ecstasy.
--Hidden Journey
Andrew Harvey
 

 She has hearts to sleep in and rooms to break.  She has people to be.
--Stephen Dietz
 

Now is not the time to make new enemies.
--Voltaire, on his deathbed, after being told to renounce the devil
 

I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.
--Nietzche
 

The inhabitant or soul of the universe is never seen; its voice alone is heard...It has a gentle voice like a woman, a voice so fine and gentle that even children cannot become afraid. What it says is, 'Be not afraid of the universe.'
--Alaskan saying
 

To die is evil.
The gods think so,
Else they would die.
--Sappho.
 

Treasures of revelation emerge from the Mother ocean...
Dive with abandon into her mystery.
You will discover a new gem every moment.
--Ramprasad
 

I have dreamt of you since the world began,
With a crown of peacock feathers on your head,
With robes of amber and yellow.
I see a garland of roses around your neck
As you take the cows out to graze.
--Mirabai
 

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
 

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
--Donna Roberts

 
"I have long considered the creative impulse to be a visit - a thing of grace, not commanded or owned so much as awaited, prepared for."

 
"You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt."

 
Oh, you know--Sarah McLachlan, the ethereal, poetic, waiflike fairy who burns incense, reads poetry all day, and lives in a fucking tree. I mean, I am sensitive and I do have wind chimes and a hot tub and I am into homeopathic medicines and herbs, but I also like a good scotch sometimes.
--Sarah McLachlan in Details Magazine interview, January 1998
 

Listen with inward ear to music
of her wisdom, teaching all creation,
With inward eye visualize her brilliant name,
Flowing across your heart in letters of molten gold.
--Ramprasad
 

I am the Queen, source of thought, Knowledge itself. You do not know Me, yet you dwell in Me.
--Rig Veda
Devi Sukta
 

Sometimes we give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think of us in return.
--T.H. White
 

O my Mother Nut,
Stretch your wings over me;
Let me become like the imperishable stars,
like the indefatigable stars.
O Great Being who is in the world of the dead
At whose feet is Eternity,
In whose hand is the Always,
Come to me.
O great divine beloved Soul,
Who is in the mysterious abyss
Come to me.
--Egyptian inscription
 

We all enter this world in the same way:
naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if
you live your life right, that kind of thing
doesn't have to stop there.
--Dana Gould
 

Once you have loved someone, you will do
anything for that person.  Except love them again.
--Oscar Wilde
 

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
--Charles V
 

I must go on from here.  I have no where else to go.
--E. B. White
 

I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway.
-- Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
 

I take the view, and I always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
--Lord Brabazon
 

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
--an English professor, Ohio University

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous.  He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
--Kurt Vonnegut
 

The paper burns, but the words fly away.
--Ben Joseph Akiba
 

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
--Lewis Carroll

You have embarked on the adventure of the unicorn.
--Hildegard of Bingen
 

Things that are obvious to many people escape me.
--Dhuoda

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-anais nin
 

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down."
-Kobi Yomada
 

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
--Mahatma Gandhi