This is a page for random quotes. Some are quotes that Tori was personally fond of; others are ones that I have found and liked. They all remind me of her in some way, and so I have decided to share them with you.

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."
-Arabic Parable

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
-Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student

"All art is but imitation of nature."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
-Washington Irving

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
-Helen Keller

"Every exit is an entry somewhere."
-Tom Stoppard

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
-Ziggy

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller

"To change and to change for the better are two different things."
-German proverb

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
-Arnold Bennett, "The Arnold Bennett Calendar"

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."
-R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."
-Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
-Gail Sheehy

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
-John Holt

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
-Richard L. Evans

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
-Lao-Tzu

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
-Christopher Morley

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
-Michael Konda

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."
-John Updike

"There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
-Robert Lynd, Solomon in All His Glory

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
-Albert Pike

"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going."
-Anon.

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
-Gary Collins

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."
-Eliel Saarinen, "Time", July 2, 1956

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
-Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
-Sydney Harris

"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."
-Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
-Orison Swett Marden

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
-Tupac Shakur

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
-Robert Frost

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
-Richard Bach

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-Anon.

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
-T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"The really important stuff they never tell you, you have to imagine it on your own."
-Brian Andreas

"As a day well spent brings happy sleep; so a life well used brings happy death."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"He not busy being born is busy dying"
-Bob Dylan