What Quotes Inspire You or have meaning to you?

"Why did he refuse to take responsibility for finding a solution to such a massive, pervasive, debilitating problem? Because that’s the difference between people who heal and people who don’t: recognizing that the influences and conditions that created the person you are today really don’t matter; what matters is having the courage to do what it takes to fix the problems you have. Or you can let being ashamed of having problems or needing help limit your options, and limit your happiness and fulfillment in life. You can even keep blaming your parents, siblings, teacher, God, your disability, your disease, your birth order, whatever for your unhappiness. I’m sure all those factors have probably legitimately done their share of damage. The problem is that blame – even legitimate, well-placed, well-deserved blame - doesn’t do a goddamned thing to repair the damage. The power to heal is in each of us. The only real question is whether we use that power or not." -Anonymous Forum Poster

"When I was a child my mother would tell me to eat my vegetables, because there were starving children in China. Well I ate my vegetables, and now China is a superpower."

-Steven Colbert.

Push it, push it real good!

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire." -Walt Whitman

Yes, I am certain Walt Whitman said that. One hundred percent positive.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

-H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"