“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.” -- TS Eliot
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“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.” -- TS Eliot
" What is life if you don't challenge yourself to do the impossible?"
thanks Jean-Baptiste
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Excerpt From Maud By: Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Half the night I waste in sighs,
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;
In a wakeful doze I sorrow
For the hand, the lips, the eyes,
For the meeting of the morrow
The delight of happy laughter,
The delight of low replies."
There is some **** you just can't share. Like my Kit Kat. If I share my Kit Kat with you, that's one-fourth! Twenty-five percent, son. No way. And don't even come up around my Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Fitty percent? Get the hell out of my face!
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre: remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte Brontë
Excerpt from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
"It's like my mother always used to say to me. Two tear drops in a bucket. F**k it!" - Madame Chablise
I don't know why, but philosophically the quote has such profound meaning. It's also fun to say in private.
Knowledge is power -Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is our one protest against the cruel dictators which forever govern this fair land. Hope is the only light shining in a room dark with the greed of a thousand tyrants. Hope is the gentle tug which guides us away from the deep chasm of fear. Hope, my child, is something no one can take away from you.
-Mother Maledi
I know its weird to post a quote from your own unpublished book, but I like it a lot. I still think it needs a bit of fine-tuning...but it's beautiful ^_^
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. "-Theodore Roosevelt
"It is bad to be good".
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There are only three things in this world that give you unquestioning loyalty: dogs, donuts, and money. - Homer Simpson :D
Just came across this quote which overwhelmed me. I may put it as my signature.
"For what is the life of a man if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it." - Mike Ditka
"The eterniity is only a passing night."
-Aristotle
"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try." - Unknown
"A pessimist falls in the river and starts crying while an optimist falls in the river and starts taking a bath." [unknown]
I love most anything voltaire has written, but suprisingly some of my favorite quotes don't come from a philosopher, but a writer of childrens books.:D
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
J. R. R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
"Little by little, one travels far."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
J. R. R. Tolkien
OK this one is just for fun. "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
J. R. R. Tolkien:lol:
I love this one by Katherine Switzer:
"Sometimes a negative can be positive and a positive can be an opportunity".
Yeah, it is from ScorateQuote:
Originally Posted by vladline
Should be
" The unexamined life is not worth living.":yawnb:
"Time is the fire in which we burn" - Gene Roddenbury
"If it is true that Liberty University has fossils labeled as being 3000 years old, that is a disgrace, that is an absolute debasement of what a university is supposed to be, and I encourage all the students here tonight who are attending Liberty to resign and go to a proper university."
- Richard Dawkins, speaking at the nearby Randolph Macon Women's College
“It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.”
H. G. Wells --lecture of 24 January 1902 at the Royal Institute, London. “The Discovery of the Future,” Nature, no. 65 (1902).
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In the Preface to the 1941 edition of H. G. Wells' The War In The Air (first published in 1908, then in 1921) he wrote: “Again I ask the reader to note the warnings I gave in that year, twenty years ago. Is there anything to add to that preface now? Nothing except my epitaph. That, when the time comes, will manifestly have to be: ‘I told you so. You damned fools.’ (The italics are mine.)”
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‘We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.’ (October 25th, 1836 entry from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Passages from the American Notebooks [1868]).
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It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
Or perhaps, we congratulate ourself at the moment of awakening, for, it was the moment just before death. You know, I'm sure, that they say people death in dreams stops breath in teams; therefore, perhaps that awakening from such a terrible dream, needs to be celebrated as an eluding of death - which I would, almost definitely, celebrate. Does that make sense?Quote:
Originally Posted by Logos
Many people wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way
Nietzsche
Absolutely understandable. We can't have these belligerent individuals performing any egregious acts of altercations in public.
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
This must have been mentioned before, seeing how there are so many enlightened and intelligetn people on this forum, but this is my favorite.
"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."-Don Wood
This simple sentece is basically my life structure. This is my logic. I get so aggravated by the morons around me who have everything put out in front of them, and they ignore it.
My favorite quote is so hard to say b/c I have so many.
1. "Be not afraid of greatness, some are born with greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare
2. "The language of friendship is not in words but in meanings." -Henry David Thoreau
3. "Happiness keeps you sweet, Trials keep you strong, Failures keep you humble, Success keeps you glowing, but only LOVE keeps you going" -Unknown
4. "Friendship: Our greatest joy and sorrow. For without our most cherished friends our world is so oftern filled with sad sorrows." - Unknown
5. "Love is just like life. Its not always easy and it doesn't always bring happiness...but when we don not drop living, why should we drop loving." -Unknown
6. "There is only one happiness in life; To love and be loved." -George Sand
7. "A heart that love is always young." -A Greek Proverb
That is just to name a few of the many quotes that I love.
don't remember who said it but it's my funniest:
" i have so much bad luck that if i bought a cemetary people would stop dying."
I cannot choose the best
The best chooses me -- Tagore
I have many many favorite quotes, but I will start with these two:
"Love and be bold
for only with these wings
can we fly from earth
to heaven".
Michelangelo
"For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave"
Robert Browning from poem "Prospice"
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
---- All quotes from Albert Einstein
Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light. - “First Fig”
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