(1,951)To get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

(1,952)Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way.

Tracy Kidder

(1,953)Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz

(1,954)Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.

The Talmud

(1,955)No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

(1,956)The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

J. Martin Kohe

(1,957)When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

(1,958)Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1,959)The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

(1,960)A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

(1,961)The great art of giving consists of this:

The gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

(1,962)I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

(1,963)He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Terry Cohen

(1,964)To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

(1,965)No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry Kisinger

(1,966)A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

(1,967)If we let things terrify us, life won't be worth living.

Seneca

(1,968)It's the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

(1,969)The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

(1,970)Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components:

Love, adventure, power, and fame.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1,971)Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Paul Engle

(1,972)If you're possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Thomas Mann

(1,973)Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Aaron Levenstein

(1,974)He had learned over the years that poor people didn't feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

(1,975)Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

(1,976)Alcohol goes in. Truth comes out.

Unknown

(1,977)When you know why you like someone, it's a crush. When you have no reason or explanation, it's love.

Unknown

(1,978)I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

(1,979)Don't bring up the past of a person who is trying to improve their future.

Unknown

(1,980)The ugliest thing that I've ever seen is a human being without compassion.

Unknown

(1,981)The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

(1,982)It's to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1,983)The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

(1,984)I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

(1,985)I don't like work—no man does—but I like what's in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

(1,986)Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli

(1,987)You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

(1,988)When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

(1,989)The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

(1,990)Don't just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness.Through mercy.

Wide Awake by David Levithan

(1,991)Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

(1,992)We were the people who weren't in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

(1,993)You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

(1,994)It's a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

(1,995)Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

(1,996)We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

The Children of Men by P. D. James

(1,997)No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

(1,998)It's sometimes an inappropriate response to reality to go insane.

Valis by Phillip K. Dick

(1,999)Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

(2,000)None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson