What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Yelena]

"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it." - Mike Ditka

[Sunflower]

"The eterniity is only a passing night."

-Aristotle

[Yelena]

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try." - Unknown

[ohlhauc1]

"A pessimist falls in the river and starts crying while an optimist falls in the river and starts taking a bath." [unknown]

[alhara]

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.


"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

[Yelena]

I love this one by Katherine Switzer:
"Sometimes a negative can be positive and a positive can be an opportunity".

[Sunflower]

My favorite quote is:

"A life not analyzed is not worth living!"

I believe it to be Socrates, but I'm not certain!

For a great poem to quote, look at Rudyard Kipling's "IF" poem. Here is a link to it!

http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/836/

Yeah, it is from Scorate

Should be
" The unexamined life is not worth living."

[Redzeppelin]

"Time is the fire in which we burn" - Gene Roddenbury

[Scheherazade]

[cuppajoe_9]

"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

[Logos]

“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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[Logos]

‘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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[Jay]

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin

[Matsiah]

‘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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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?

[Jaded24-7]

Many people wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way
Nietzsche