what is the quotation that touched your heart all time...?

Answer 1

Something I heard by a doctor on Oprah! Yes, I do watch it sometimes!
"Children have a hole in their hearts in the shape of their fathers"
I thought this was the most honest and touching thing I had ever heard.

Answer 2

"What you did to me… was unbelievable, Connor. But then, I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M. C. Esher perspective — but I did get time to think. About us, about the world. Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh, and cruel. But that's why there's us. Champions. It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be. You're not a part of that yet. I hope you will be. I love you, Connor. Now get out of my house." - From Deep Down, from season 4 of Angel

Also...
The poem "When I have fears that I may cease to be". by John Keats. He wrote it while in the end stages of a fatal illness and its both inciteful and just plain sad.

WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

Answer 3

Aside from Bible quotes, which can be very strengthening and comforting, I like the Desiderada. I first heard Les Crane's recorded version in high school, and now (30 years later) I still recite it to myself on occasion as a reminder.

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Desiderata

-- written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s --

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.


With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful. Strive to be happy.

Answer 4

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
The thing about life is that you must survive.Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is to move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with youself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. -Katharine Houghtin Hepburn 1907-2003

Answer 5

2 Quotations touch my heart all the time...
1)- The heart is happiest when it beats for others.
2)- When u think someone bad-first examine ur heart.
Thanks,
Sumiya.

Answer 6

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

May the Force be with you.

Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

- Yoda

Answer 7

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
---Rober Frost "The Road Not Taken"

Answer 8

1. Honesty is the Best Policy
2. Think Positive

Answer 9

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”--William Butler Yeats

Happy Birthday, Mr. Yeats!

Answer 10

1,Whoever fights monsters should see to it in the process he does not become one himself, and whoever stands and looks long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you....

2,And the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud, was more painful, than the risk it took to blossom..
3,"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is.But if you treat him as he should be ,he will become what he should be,and ought to be.".Goethe