I once found this written on the back of a desk and thought it a good metaphor for life:

"I hate me."

"I hate you too."

"I hate you both."

Favorite Quotes:

"It is dangerous when people start believing in eventual harmony because when you don’t agree with them, they kill you." - Artist, Kim Jones

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - Mark Twain

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles." - Charles Chaplin

"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." - Madame Swetchine

"And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light." - From the Bible, Corinthians 11:14

"It is a mistake to say that there is no bath that will cure people's manners... drowning would help." - Mark Twain

"We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

From Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Episode 10, Regime Change:

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - Japanese proverb

"We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it- because we need it." - Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

"Beware a silent dog and still waters." – Roman Proverb

"Keep your eye on the ball, your shoulder to the wheel, your ear to the ground. Now, try to work in that position." - Uknown

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception." - Groucho Marx

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban

"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go." - E. E. Cummings

"If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him." - Anonymous

"Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again." - Stephen King

"The one who tells the stories rules the world." - Proverb from the Native American Hopi Tribe

"There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail." - Proverb from the Native American Navajo Tribe

"The world is is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans." - John Lennon

Invent your own mythology or be slave to another man's" - W. Blake

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Our life is made by the death of others."- Leonardo Da Vinci

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Too much sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." - From Don Quixote

"Sanity is madness put to good uses." -George Santayana

"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so." - Eric Bentley

"You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less." -Unknown

"In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments." - Friedrich Nietzsche, From Human, All Too Human

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and we call it Hope." - Edgar Howe

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come." - Anne Lamott

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"Hope is the denial of reality." - Margaret Weis

"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route." - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Nothing is so commonplace as the wish to be remarkable." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It has been said "time heals all wounds" I do not agree, the wounds remain, in time the mind (protecting its sanity) covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain." Lord Byron

"Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving." - Frank Rooney

"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them." - Alice Sebold

"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche

“To perceive is to suffer.” - Aristotle

"All men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln