Mine would have to be, "Immediatly after the monsters, die the heroes." -Roberto Calasso. The sacrificial meaning gets me the most. Even though the hero endured great pain to kill the monster, it still saved the person, or thing, that was worth saving. The sacrifice of a true hero lies in the hands of the situation.
"Into this world i shall walk among. To exit this world i shall die."
I don't believe I've had the pleasure of welcoming you to the forum yet. Welcome, huihuffaker.
I don't think this topic belongs in this particular forum. It's probably better suited for the "Who Said That?" forum. In fact, there is a similar thread to that which you started, located here: "What's your fav quote?". This thread will most likely be merged onto that one.
As for your initial question, I haven't the time to decide which quote I like over another; I have several favorites.
EDIT: I just realized that this topic was moved to the appropriate forum.
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
Dostoevsky Forum!
"I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be." John Betjeman
"To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."
Edgar Lee Masters
There is no problem a good miracle can't solve.
'Do a thing very well and you will stand before kings.' it is an ancient word of wisdom from I think proverbs in the bible. I like that. It could be the most humble thing, but if you work and work at it and excel people start noticing and sure enough you will find yourself being consulted by those in high places.
Look at Mother Teresa of Calcutta, even that creep Rasputin. He was so good at calming down the little heir to the throne when he had his horrifying attacks of hemophelia that he gained the complete trust of the the Tzarina and ended up interfering through her in politics to the ruin of the Romanov family.
I have a friend who lives a very quiet life. But she bought one rose bush for her garden, it needed something she told me. She knew nothing about roses but she kept looking things up and experimenting and wht not and in about five years she began to win awards for her yard and finally became a consultant on radio and newspaper about the growing and care of roses.
He said, 'she has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace
The Lady of Shalott.-Lancelot-Lady of Shallot
There is no such thing as "attack of hemophilia"...Originally Posted by Jane Jane
There are several that are my 'favorite' but two are dear to me.
They are both from the tiny dynamo Mother Theresa of Calcutta:
"I know that God will never give me more than I can handle,I just wish He didn't trust me so much." I believe that is the same feeling for both an intimate relationship with God and with someone mortal that one loves. There is joy unspeakable, also great pain and hardship on the seas of relationships.
The second is:
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
I was on my own in a city of millions years before I became an adult. Being very shy and an interior person I mainly went to my job each morning, came home each evening and was completely alone. Having spent all my school years but three with the same two girls as best friends and now having no family, this was devestating.
I managed finally to put myself out there, to smile at people, listen carefully and before I knew it I had many friends. But I never forgot the pain of such emotional poverty and each day I look for a way to share my love with someone that I either know doesn't have any from others, or take a chance to smile and be kind to strangers and those I talk to at the shops, etc. This Christmas I gave gifts to strangers as I felt in my heart and was overwhelmed at how some of them opened up with great emotion and I saw they in fact, though looking put together and happy, were broken and alone. It shook me up.
He said, 'she has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace
The Lady of Shalott.-Lancelot-Lady of Shallot
Call me wrong, call me right.
but i bring my better angels to every fight.
you may not like where i'm going,
but you sure know where i stand.
love me if you can
i dont remember it fully but when captain jack says
Me, i'm dishonest , & a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for because you...
i forget
...can never trust an honest man to be honest
lol
its not my favourite but it makes me chuckle
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Jane Jane, I love your signature! "The Lady of Shalott" is amazing! One of my favourites!
As for my favourite quotes...they are all in my signature!
"Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future." -William Wordsworth
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot
Currently Reading: "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." ~Timothy Leary
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When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones.
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I'm sorry for the rude words,,,i am truly am,,but everyone has their limits,,,but break a big promise to me twice,,,,
I prepared everything and just one text, sorry i could not make it,,,,that's it?
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never met an automatic weapon.
-General MacArthur.
It is in the darkest of times that heroes are born, every generation has one, you just need to figure out what kind of hero is he?
-Unknown
To say that literature is dying is to say that the world is dying.
" 'The most important part of poetry is structure!' one student answers. ' No! The most important part of poetry is sound.' Another retorts. 'No! The most important part of poetry is rhyme!' says the last. 'No!" Says the teacher, ' The most important part of poetry is the meaning, no structure, nor sound nor rhyme alone can define poetry, combine them all and you get meaning.'
Haha, Love it!!!
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transitions thats troublesome."
-Isaac Asimov
"You mice, that ate the crumbs of my freedom, lo!" Charles Reznikoff, Epitaphs,2
I will not tiptoe through life, only to arrive safely at death
-- author unknown
If you want success you better get comfortable with rejection. The most successful people in life are also the world's most biggest failures.
-- Clint Borgen, Geneva Nights
Consider the successes that resulted from tired, discouraged people who decided to give it just one more try.
-- Life Little Instructions calender Volume X, March 14th 2006
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