Some quotes are just too good to keep to yourself, which is why they are repeated so often.  Here are some of my personal favorites:
No day but today.
   –  Jonathan Larson, from RENT
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
  – Winston Churchill
Everything happens for a reason.
  – American Proverb
The best way out is always through.
  – Robert Frost
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human has to choose a relative.
  – Mordecai Siegal
Some days, you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.
  – Anonymous
95% of all of the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don’t look so goddamn smug.
  – Gerard Ryder
When we cease to know the meaning of the land, we no longer know who we are.
  – Cochise
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
  – Gandhi
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
  – Marvin Gaye
Walking the spiritual path can sometimes be a lonely road.
  – Anonymous
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
  – Buddha
I’m so burned out, I’m a pile of ashes.
  – A. Vauxhall
 Life is too short to be spent in the company of people that just irritate me.
  – A. Vauxhall
 Chocolate is the answer no matter what the question is.
– Anonymous
The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
– Anonymous
May I always be the person my dog thinks I am.
– Anonymous
The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.
– Will Rogers
Always make new mistakes.
– Esther Dyson
 That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
– Niectchze
My life is full of misfortune, most of which never happened.
– Mark Twain
Be Yourself: Everyone Else is Taken.
– Oscar Wilde
The only failure is not to try.
– The Yoga Sutras
The unreal never is, the real is not.
– The Yoga Sutras
I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
-Abraham Lincoln
 When you try, try to the best of your ability.
– The Yoga Sutras
The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, but when you get to the other side of the fence, that grass is all brown from dog pee.
– A. Vauxhall
Love, hate and f*** are all four letter words, but sometimes love is the foulest one of all.
– A. Vauxhall
Because we don’t understand that all beings share one life force, one consciousness, we blunder about, damaging ourselves by damaging others.
– Deborah Willoughby
The mind is the cause of one’s bondage or liberation.
– The Yoga Sutras
 The fear inside us creates the danger outside us.
– Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
You are whatever you know yourself to be.
– Vidyraranya Yati
Stress is a reaction, the solution is, don’t react.
– Rolf Solvik
 We must give the mind time to learn.
-Sri Pattabhriham
The farther one goes, the less one knows.
– Tao Te Ching
Do or do not, there is no try.  - Yoda
What is weird within you is your treasure. – Ukita Yozo
 Here are a few gems from Eilot Pattison’s great series of Tibetan monk related murder/mysteries that I surmise he collected from monks during his travels in Tibet and Nepal – these are from “Bone Mountain”:
You must stop being the seeker you were and become the seeker you want to be.
Look inside. Not behind you.
The basic nature of your mind is luminosity and emptiness.
Sift the sand to find the seeds of the universe.
I was in love. Where were you?
-Â John Rogowski
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