Author Topic: Share your favourite quotes! (Read 7841 times)

SWM · « **on:** April 24, 2009, 05:06:11 PM »

do you have any quotations that you could share with others.

any kind of quote that you think other people should share maybe funny or inspirational, motivational or insightful. Whatever.

Could be from any where. a film, a song, a poem, a book. Famous people or something somebody has said to you.

SWM · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:03:17 AM »

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

A child born today in the UK stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university and about one fifth of mental hospital admissions are diagnosed schizophrenic. this can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
~R.D.Laing

Turion · « **Reply #2 on:** May 04, 2009, 07:37:07 PM »

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had — power.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"When one door of happiness closes another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which is opened before us."
~ Helen Keller

Enigma · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2009, 03:15:41 AM »

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” - Teddy Roosevelt

liza123 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 07, 2009, 02:58:26 PM »

Nothing is to be feared. It is only to be understood-Marie Curie

In the midst of great anger, do not answer a man 's letter;in the midst of great love, do not promise a man anything-Confucius

Cheers

ari11 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2009, 06:45:01 PM »

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Theresa

..and of course, my signature, which was said by Ghandi.

anaklio · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2009, 02:46:22 AM »

Quotes are my second favorite thing. My favorite thing are thought-provoking questions. Things like "Would you leave all of your friends for the perfect spouse?". Anyway....here's one of my favorite quotes.

Change the things you can, accept the things you can't, and have the wisdom to know the difference.

liza123 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 20, 2009, 11:24:04 AM »

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without..Buddha
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others..Sir Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves..Benjamin Disraeli

SWM · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2009, 06:53:36 PM »

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

Kallisti · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2009, 01:32:11 AM »

"Give me liberty. I do not feel you should have a second option here." Horne and Comeau

SWM · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2009, 07:27:59 AM »

"All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements...are all figments of the imagination and manifestations of the mind" -Buddha...

SWM · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2009, 07:30:01 AM »

"A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude." - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

liza123 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:16:58 AM »

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

-Quotes from Mother Teresa

liza123 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:21:22 AM »

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. "

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?”

-Quotes from Mother Teresa

DarkPoet · « **Reply #14 on:** August 05, 2009, 10:35:27 PM »

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust" ~ T.S. Eliot

liza123 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 07, 2009, 03:54:26 AM »

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it"-Moliere

crash · « **Reply #16 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:37:59 PM »

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

crash · « **Reply #17 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:42:34 PM »

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

hortonpilot · « **Reply #18 on:** September 05, 2009, 03:14:26 PM »

Trueman Capote said some wonderful things, i like his bitchy frankness when he talks of writing and others works. At times his tenderness and reverence to great writers is very touching.
He likens Isak Dinesen's best works as near perfect and like a gentle breeze against one's face.

For me the memorable one is from Andre Gide.
"" All great works of art are rather difficult to access.The reader who thinks them easy has failed to penetrate to the heart of the work.That mysterious hearthas no need of obscurity to defend itself from overbold approach; clarity does this well enough.
Very great clarity, as it often happens for the great works of French art, by Rameau, Moliere, or Poussin is, to defend a work, the most specious girdle; you come to doubt whether there is any secret there , it seems you touch the depths at once.
But ten years later you return to it and enter more deeply.
It is for this reason that the french language seems childishly easy to learn, then more and more difficult as you hear it better.

Andre Gide, journals.

Horton

NickArsen · « **Reply #19 on:** September 06, 2009, 07:11:39 PM »

Dont stop trying Coz it increases your ability to achieve success. - Nick Arsen

hortonpilot · « **Reply #20 on:** September 07, 2009, 02:13:36 AM »

Nick,

repeated is the same idea in the I-Ching.

"Perserverence furthers."

Great strength to have.

Horton

liza123 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 07, 2009, 03:45:58 AM »

Quote from: NickArsen on September 06, 2009, 07:11:39 PM

Dont stop trying Coz it increases your ability to achieve success. - Nick Arsen

Who is Nick Arsen?

OK, just pulling your leg. A good quote from you. Thanks

voodoo scientist · « **Reply #22 on:** September 11, 2009, 03:57:51 PM »

"The object of power is power." - O'Brien, 1984

Enigma · « **Reply #23 on:** September 11, 2009, 08:17:43 PM »

There are no failures, only feedback.

A successful organism adapts to its environment.

SWM · « **Reply #24 on:** September 20, 2009, 09:34:12 AM »

"I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world- so manifestly real was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. We discover abruptly that everything we accept as reality is just social fabrications." - Timothy Leary, 1966

In the province of connected minds, what the network believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits. - Dr. John C. Lilly, M.D

hortonpilot · « **Reply #25 on:** September 20, 2009, 10:44:06 AM »

Thanks,
"I gave way to delight................."

Made me remember those words all those years ago when i read them as a very young man searching for knowledge. Strange is that you fall into those words like a well known path.
Everything goes into your mind and is stored , when jogged it is recalled.

Still feel it is good to question nearly everything.

Horton.

nlitenme · « **Reply #26 on:** March 26, 2010, 11:41:59 PM »

Giordano Bruno: (1548-1600): "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." (The church burned him alive because he believed that the earth circled the sun.)

pert -5 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 27, 2010, 12:52:06 AM »

Quote from: nlitenme on March 26, 2010, 11:41:59 PM

Giordano Bruno: (1548-1600): "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." (The church burned him alive because he believed that the earth circled the sun.)

Excellent quote! In response to the church's sentence Bruno is reported as saying:
"Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam"(Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it)

Giordano is one of the Gnostic Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.

Another favorite quote of mine:
“...in that silence of the heart, while we keep watch within through contemplation, we are as if asleep to all things that are without."
- Pope Gregory I

pert -5 · « **Reply #28 on:** April 17, 2010, 10:33:27 PM »

But at it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
- 1 Corinthians, 2:9

pert -5 · « **Reply #29 on:** April 28, 2010, 10:57:41 AM »

"one day the serpent will catch its tail, and everybody else will stop chasing it."
- SWM

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