quotes for teenagers

Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody



Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here. ~John L. Swigert, Jr., Apollo 13 command module pilot, 13 April 1970 Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? ~Author Unknown



When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. ~Chang Ch'ao



Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Don't let the past steal your present. ~Terri Guillemets



Don't go through life without goals. ~Hockey Saying



Retire from work, but not from life. ~M.K. Soni



To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (Thanks Janice!)



It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken



War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift



Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. ~Bern Williams



Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. ~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891



As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown



Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown



I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. ~Carl Jung



Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 (Thanks, Jeff)