“Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of a fraction called happiness.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It would be childish of us to deny that out lives weren't changing. But for this night, none of us were going anywhere. That's the thing about really good friends and a really great Manhattan .” – Carrie Bradshaw – Sex & the City

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.” – Margaret Young

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have paradise in a few years.” – Bertrand Russell

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” – Fyodor Dosoevsky

“Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly as I should.” – Ephesians 6:19 & 20

“And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. And if a ten-ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is all mine” – The Smiths “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”

“There are ghosts from my past who own more of my soul than I thought I had given away. They linger in closets and under my bed and in pictures less proudly displayed. A great fool in my life I have been, have squandered 'til pallid and thin. Hung my head in shame and refused to take blame for the darkness I know I've let win.” Jennifer Knapp “Martyrs & Thieves”

“When you suffer a broken heart you seek refuge somewhere.” – Justin Timberlake

“If somebody fucks with me than I'll fuck with them back. And I'll wipe the floor with them. It's as simple as that.” – Shirley Manson

“I smell drama. I like that smell. It's like freshly toasted cinnamon buns in the morning. Except I don't like cinnamon that much.” – Hollie

“A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.” – Washington Irving

“Remember people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard boiled egg.”

“On the way down, I saw you and you saved me from myself…and I won't forget the way you loved me.” – Ryan Cabrera “On The Way Down”

“We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Music is the only thing in life that I've always loved. It's genuine. Music is genuine. Whenever somebody hears a song that they like, they turn into a person that they were hiding.” – Justin Timberlake

“There's something in every atheist itching to believe and something in every believer itching to doubt.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“All know the way; few actually walk it.” – Bodhidharuia

“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our own ideals; others by their acts.” – Harold Nicolson

“If ifs were gifts everyday would be Christmas.” – Charles Barkley “Be content to act and leave the talking to others.” – Balthasar Gracian

“The first step binds one to the second.” – French Proverb

“The church is the great lost and found department.” – Robert Short

“A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.” – Edwin Lewis

“Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.” – Charles de Gaulle

“It is doubtlessly true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.” – Karl Menninger

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they are; but I do believe in a fate that falls on a man unless they act.” – G.K. Chesterton

“All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.” – Cathy Ladman

“I speak not of men's creeds – they rest between Man and his Maker.” – George Gordon

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart settled down day after day to the job at hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.” – Ernest Newman

“No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their fingertips with a sense of infinite hazard.” – William Hecking

“God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?” – Marlin Buber

“Nature takes away any faculty that's not used.” – William R. Inge

“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.” – D.H. Lawrence

“All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.” – William F. Halsey

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it's faced.” – James Baldwin

“Action will remove all doubts that theory cannot solve.” – Tehyi Hsieh

“How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World!  It is the creation of a god who "ever plays the geometer." – Aldous Huxley – Music at Night

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image what it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” – Anne Lamott

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needs it the most?” – Mark Twain

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New he would be insane.” – Robert G. Ingasoll

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” – G. K. Chesterton

“No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being.  When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go."  He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right.  – Bertrand Russell

“The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.” – Sean Ningen

“I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays.” – Bumper Sticker

“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them cares for.” – George Savile

“The more I study religion the more I am convinced that Man never worshiped anything but himself.” – Richard Burton

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