"Never regret anything that made you smile"
"Never regret anything that made you smile"
Satan is a coping mechanism for monotheists. the History Channel
"Good cannot exist without evil."
I use this quote in every story I write. Everything has a good and evil side, without both it cannot exist. =^-^=
"Saiba que os poetas, como os cegos, podem ver na escuridão."
(From a song, "Choro bandido", by Edu Lobo & Chico Buarque)
It means "know that poets, like blindmen, can see in the darkness".
It's followed me for a while, now ...
klicky
"A closed mind is just like a closed book. Just a lump of wood."
'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
"This above all, - to thine own self be true;
And it will follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Hamlet - Act 1 Scene 3
Wow, that's very Asian. Pretty much like yin and yang.Originally Posted by Stray_of_Hyrule
As for my most unforgettable quote and something that I apply in life, it's Soren Kieerkegaard's "There are two ways to be fooled; one is believing what is not so, and the other is not believing what is so."
So I make it a point to believe in people (but of course with discretion and prudence). Never mind it if sometimes people lie to me, at least, it isn't m,e who commits the sin, though I do from time to time, too.
[one of the variations of this "quote"]
"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
--Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
From: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...iemoeller.html
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The truth will set you free.
My favorite quote is by Flannery O'Connor
She said "Anyone who survived childhood should have enough material to write about for the rest of their life."
I love it because it helps me keep trying to write.
It's not my favourite but one of my favourites:
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
-George Bernard Shaw
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
"The hardest battle in life is to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else."
e.e. cummings
"Each man has only one genuine vocation-to find the way to himself"
Demian, Hesse
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Aldous Huxley
the civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet
~ralph waldo emerson
aham eva param brahman
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Suess (1904-1991)
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