tattoos of quotes or sayings

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. ~Author Unknown



Inspiration: a peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God. ~Voltaire



A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~Rupert Brooke



Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook



Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln



There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life. ~Varaha Mihira



Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. ~Augustine



Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. ~Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos



Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604



I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. ~Henry David Thoreau



I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. ~Zig Ziglar



For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. ~Ephesians 2:14



Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson



If you need a new process and don't install it, you pay for it without getting it. ~Ken Stork



Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. ~Maya Patel



In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb



Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ~Swami Nirmalananda, Enlightened Anarchism



The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson