Quotes Collected

I was playing around with my newly found ipod (see Frisco... Ahhh Good Ol' Frisco), rearranging playlists and whatnot on my computer when I discovered a document of quotes I've collected throughout the years. Whenever I came across a particularly interesting quote or paragraph or whatever I used to jot them down and add them to my collection. It's funny how so many people seem to do that. It also seems like a pretty nerdy thing to do, but I'm a nerd so sue me.

Here's a sampling:

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

Well behaved women rarely make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe

We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Tennyson

I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin

The tapestry of circumstance is intricate and dense. Ants stitching in the grass. The grass sewn into the ground. The pattern of a wave being needled by a twig. So it happens that I am and look. When I see such things I am no longer sure that what's important is more important than what is not.
- Wislawa Szymborska

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others' dreams we can play together all night.
- Hobbes to Calvin

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Chesire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

If you make no demands, everything is a gift.
- Graeber of a Time to Live and Die

The thing with not appreciating what you have while you have it is that you may never have the chance to appreciate it again.
- The wise Julie Bensen at UNC