one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine pic, and, if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words. (Goethe)
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one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine pic, and, if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words. (Goethe)
I like Emily Dickinson quotes, they say that She's the greatest American Poet writier,
sometimes I agree with them, but not all the time, I just can't forget how did she put away
all her wonderful poems form the world till she died, I hate that she was writing in secret,
but anyway, more than 2000 poem that she wrote, were found after she dided...
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I think that hope is the last thing we lose as human beings,
without hope...everything is simplely gone, hope is what makes us go on in our life,
without it, we would be laying on the bed wating for our souls to leave our bodys,
here's some of fave Emily Dickinson quotes about hope:-
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"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all."
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."
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"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy."
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"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."
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"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
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"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."
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How great ! I can't stop reading them over and over...
I hope you like it, as I did...
Believer
There are already over 200 posts on this thread, and I confess I haven't read them ALL, so I hope these haven't been posted already:
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.-- Will Durant
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? -- Samuel Johnson
I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn. Those to whom evil is done do evil in return. -- W.H.Auden
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Unknown (often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)
I haven't read all the replys either, maybe 3 or 4, but I have read yours nickelsilver, I liked that last one, most of the times I discuss ideas, dose that really make me an owner of a great mind?
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I like this one very much:
"Say only what you mean. The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans".
Don Miguel Ruiz
the one thats my signature
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Originally Posted by NNoah3
WONDERFUL !
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Yeah, Don Miguel Ruiz is a very wise man--well worth reading.
On another note, I have one more fave quote. Actually I have many more favorites, but just one more for now. Not that I'm one to give relationship advice, but if I were, it might go something like this:
It's better to be alone than to wish you were.
I have a couple, sorry if they are already on here.
"If I told you my reality, you'd
say I have a great imagination,
If I told you my imagination, you'd
say I've lost touch with reality" - Bob Shanks
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." - Samuel Beckett
my signature
and my favorite is a short dialogue between a preacher and a young man at confession:
"Once a upon a time, a pale and troubled man came into your church. You spoke briefly to him, and he told you of his poor relationship with God. you asked him why"
"Yes.."
"And he had no answer, then"
"Yes, I remember you."
"I have returned to tell you that I have found the answer to your question. I know why I hate God."
"...why"
" I hate God because God is the Universe, and the Universe is insane. the Universe is insane because we have driven it insane. This is very embarrasing. God knows this, and uses every opportunity to remind us what we have done to It. Thus, I hate God because God is an embarrasment to me. God is insane. I have made It insane."
I stood up in the booth, and opened the door. "But I am not sorry." - Jonathan Titchenal
At the moment, I can only name three of my favourite quotes:
"In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty." - Edward Abbey
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
"We don't admit, we could be wrong. Least of all, in written form." -
It's about jurists and a course instructor of mine said it. (In German, of course).
I just like it because it's the truth and about the "golden rule" of all lawyers and jurists in general. :)
Some quotes about TIME:
"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it
rather than invest it." Jim Rohn
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get
more time." Jim Rohn
"Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So
make sure you spend each one wisely." Jim Rohn
"Engage"--Jean Luc Picard
"You deserve to be tartuffified'--Molieri
"Love's long lost shadow eventually embraces us in the end"--anon
"They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries"--Blanche DuBois (after all, the opposite of death is desire)
Good job guys,
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I have some Arabic quotes, I don't know who said them but they're great, I'll translate them for you in English.
لا يمكن للمرء أن يحصل على المعرفة إلا بعد أن يتعـلم كيف يفكر .
The man can't have knowledge unless he know how to think.
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قطرة الماء تـثـقب الحجر.. لا بالعـنف.. لكن بتواصل السقوط .
The drop of water dug the stone...not with valiance...but with the commutating of falling.
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الصداقة كالماء . سهل أن تضيعه و صعـب أن تحتفظ به .
Friendship is like the water, easy to lose and hard to keep.
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Good quote Believer. I like them to.
"If now considered in the light of liberty, excuse it for the love of poor old days." Charls Dikkens - Great Expectations
"According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true." Idem
"In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life." Idem
The best of them: "The real love is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission,trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your hole heart and soul to the smiter" Idem
1.".....Since my house to thy house no greater can send,
than thy house to my house-friend comforting friend." (Kipling)
2."....The Pope may launch his interdict,
the union its decree,
But the bubble is blown and the bubble is pricked
by us and such as we.
Remember the battle and stand aside
while thrones and powers confess
that king over all the children of pride,
Is the Press-the Press-the Press." (Kipling)
3."The man that is open of heart to his neighbor,
and stops to consider his likes and dislikes,
his blood shall be wholesome whatever his labour,
his luck shall be with him Whatever he strikes......" (Kipling, of course)
If one man tells you that you look like a jackass, pay him no mind; if two men tell you that you look like a jackass, go out and buy a saddle.
Yiddish Proverb
It would have to be the following quote by Rene Descartes, though my interpretation of it is alittle different from the original context in which Descartes used it:
"I think therefore I am".
It spells to me the power of our mind, our imagination and thoughts. It tells us how meaningless the concept of the past, present and future is for, as Herman Hesse said in Siddhartha, your mind can take you back to the past, move you to the future or the present. You can relive any moment in the mind.
"Le talent, c'est d'avoir envie."
that would be my favourite one, but I'm afraid I can't remember whose quote it is...('To have a talent for something is merely to have an itch to do it.', I'd translate it)
Oh my God! I have many favorite quotes...
Work for life on this earth as if you are to live forever, and work for the Other Life as if you are to die tomorrow
Reason is our souls's left hand, faith her right
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches.. and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go
This thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down
We don't see things as they are, we say them as we are
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen
And many more...
I don't know why people are afraid of dying; it's not like you have to worry about breaking your leg.
I have several http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/cwm/freak4.gif:
1. "Passion drives perfection."
2. "Friendship is like wine; it gets better as it gets older."
3. "Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation." -Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
4. "By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it." -Vincent van Gogh
5. "No one can really die, for as long as you are remembered, you gain immortality." -Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." -Virginia Woolf
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" -Ayn Rand.
"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure" From Harry Potter series
"My heart is the perfect graveyard of burried hopes" From Ann of the Green Gable
"Nothing comes from nothing" by Shakespeare
"To be or not to be that is the real question" by Shakespeare
"Don't bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." R.W. Emerson
"As they poured across the border, we were cautioned to surrender, this i could not do." as sung by Joan Baez (don't know if she sang it first, Leonard Cohen sings it too)
A man who may speak extemporaniously, lacks passion.
-Nietzsche, Notes on Rhetoric
I forgot to add: "Judge a man not by his answers, but by his questions." -Voltaire?
we shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time
--T.S. Eliot
I love this poem and use it as my motto in life and the other quote I adore also
Success
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. ~ RW Emerson
Life should not be judged by how many breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away. ~ Author I donno
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Originally Posted by Lauralou
Perhaps it was Sting, or Jessica Simpson lol just kidding...
LOL sadly Mr. Bo ur probably right but sometimes I can find insight in the strangest of places... even though I seriously don't like Sting or Jessica Simpson I'm more of a Rolling Stones kinda girl lol
Here's a good one from Yellowbeard
"Dying's the easy way out. You won't catch me dying. They'll have to kill me before I die! "
Never knock on Death's door; ring the bell and run, He hates that.
- "If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room"
- "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remain all doubt"
Abraham Lincoln
- "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better"
Laurie Anderson
-"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies"
Roderick Thorpe
- "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book"
Groucho Marx
- "The end depends upon the beginning"
- "In times like these, it helps to remember that there have always been times like these"
ok now I'll stop. I have a notebook with a lot of quotes but I'll leave it with these for now.... :D
I love that knocking on death's door. THE BEST.
In the movie rat race, john lovitz who plays a jewish man on vacation with his family ends up stealing a nazi limo from the klaus 'barbie' museum(he was called the butcher of lyon) when some people are angered by him on the highway and begin smashing the car he screams at them "are you insane, this is Hitler's car!" it is so ludicrous it cracks me up every time.
"women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical and there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue." chesterton on dickens
"marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline" manalive
"if one by land and two by sea" paul revere
Thomas Paine: “We live to improve or we live in vain."
*I have too many favourite quotes...I could fill pages and pages.
I also like to keep quotes from literature, other books or articles I've read.
When I read, I write them all down as well.
I have many
"Humanity is probably the only creature capable of hating its own kind" Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion, Dir. Hideki Anno. Manga Entertainment 2002.
"The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose" Ray Bradbury
"I wanna live, I wanna love, but its a long hard road out of hell" Marilyn Manson
"If America is going to Hell in an immoral handbasket, it is happening when church membership is at an all-time high and a greater percentage of Americans (90-95%) than ever before proclaim a belief in God" Michael Shermer The Science of Good & Evil page 237
Einstein: I Should have been a plumber!
Marlon Brando: I like Icecreams!
'It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.'
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"To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower . . .hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour . . . " ~William Blake