I know I have a couple, and one I thought of the other night, because I had to put my dog down, was "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" And then there is also "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game"
Mine is "Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience" Mark Twain
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." -Buddha "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -Albert Einstein
"The most merciful thing in the world is the inability for the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H. P. Lovecraft I read his stories and stuff two weeks ago. LURVE HIM.
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
Anything by Henry David Thoreau. The man had wit and wisdom enough for a continent's worth of people. Here's a particularly good one though. "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" The Tempest- Shakespeare "Once you eliminate the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo Da Vinci
A few choice Winston Churchill quotes: - I am easily satisfied with the very best. - We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. There are so many others, his humour, for example, was legendary!
"Saying someone can't be sad because someone else may have it worse is just like saying someone can't be happy because someone else may have it better."
Wow, this. Reminds me of a quote by Isaac Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
I like this thread, I like collecting quotes. I have about three pages of quotes I like saved on my computer. Let's see now... some of my favourites. "Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic." "Two roads diverged in a wood and I-I took the road less travelled by, and it has made all the difference. " "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” "Let*me live my life as I want, for at its end it is I who must die.*" “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” And then of course the two in my signature. I have a lot of quotes I like... maybe I'll post more later.
Lots of the things by Albus Dumbledore (and a lot of Harry Potter characters) "There is a time for speech-making, and this is not it. Tuck in!" - Albus Dumbledore "I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am, they would be too scared." - Artemis Fowl II "If I were you, then you'd be me. So if I were you I'd go hide somewhere far far away." - Artemis Fowl II Mark Twain, Sherlock Holmes, a lot of people. "There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics." - Mark Twain "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain So. Much. Quotes. Edit: "There are three types of people in this world. Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. Which are you?" - Benjamin Franklin
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami
Wow there is so many I love... Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Higher Pantheism" Any fear, any memory will do, and if you got a heart at all, someday it will kill you -Rita Dove Art is the lie that tells the truth. -Pablo Picasso Darkness cannot driveout darkness ; Only light can do that. Hate cannot driveout hate; Only love can do that. -Martin Luther King Jr. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. -Marilyn Monroe
“John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!" "She has always struck me false!" THE CRUCIBLE "The answer is that it doesn't matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both” - A MONSTER CALLS The Truth Must Be Told – FEED (Mira Grant) I must not tell lies – hp5 Friends don’t owe, friends don’t repay. - Blood red road I feel infinite – Perks You are my india – a beautiful lie Especially when she’s dressed as flipping Hannah Montana - When I was Joe (Keren David) Lets go home, to hell. – tomorrow when the war began (John Marsden) “I guess i should tell you, Don’t blame yourself; this isn’t your fault, but that would be a lie” “When I was little, I used to poor salt on slugs. Cruelty’s always fun into you realise something’s getting hurt” - Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult) Overwhelmed – the fear (Charlie Higson) I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him There are just some kind of men who, who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one. – TKAM Boggis bunce and bean, one fat one short... – fantastic mr fox I learnt that the world revolves around money. – trash I volunteer as tribute – Hunger games Death is not the end – stirring the storm
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining nearby. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. -G.M. Trevelyan It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin
We must be careful about what we pretend to be - Kurt Vonnegut She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing - Kurt Vonnegut The Johnny Walker wisdom was running high - Leonard Cohen There's not much to country living sweat, piss, jizz and blood - Warren Zevon Time is just memory mixed with desire - Tom Waits When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson
