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Question

What is your favorite quote? How did you come across it? Who's it by?
What impact does it have on you?

here's one of mine:
"To be a born loser, means to be born into a unhealthy, unwealthy, unwanted family. That can be changed by self respect, wisdom, and strength.
Born a loser, died a winner. Take a chance, make an effort, live your life."
-J. Smith

here's another:

"A day without God, is a day in hell."

Answer 1

"Be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the people that mind don't matter."

Answer 2

"If i wore a tie that wouldn't change who i am. If i had no piercings that wouldn't mean I'm nice, If i had black hair that wouldn't stop me from kicking your butt!"
Haru Sohma (Fruits Basket)
“I set out on Sunday and found myself in an unfamiliar town. Next thing I knew 3 days had passed. A mystery…” –Haru
“I guess Faires really do exist. A mystery…” –Haru
“It’s okay to feel weak sometimes. It’s okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That’s what makes us strong,” –Yuki
“Maybe I wanted to be needed by something that wouldn’t exist without me,” – Yuki
“I want to believe that my hopes aren’t for nothing. I want to believe that there really is more to life then darkness. Just like even if I’m pelted with rain, I know the sun will come up again. No matter how much I’m knocked down by pain,” – Yuki
“You’re late. Idiots should do what idiots can to be quicker,” Akito
“Maybe it’s difficult becuz it’s so simple,” yuki
“Think of dodgeball with rockets,” Haru
“Because when you smile the world seems just a little kinder,” – Kazuma
“For u 2 be urself is a very important thing,” –kazuma
“I’m sorry. I don’t need pity or sympathy. I don’t expect anyone to understand these feelings Feelings of pain, feelings of happiness. They r mine alone,” – Kagura
“I can’t stand on my own. I can’t go on any further. Not all by myself,” –Rin
“Doubting is easy anyone can do it,” – Kyoko
“U need 2 live somewhere where u can spread ur wings and really be alive,” Grandpa

"You don't have to be adults but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions,"
Mayu (Fruits Basket)

"If u push 2 hard u'll break things,"
Hatori (Fruits Basket)

"No matter how hard u try 2 keep it away despair will attack u again and again. In the same manner hope will return to u again and again"
Kazuma (I'll stop putting this they are all from Fruits Basket unless i say so)

"U always struggle frantically 2 keep urself from drowning... When if u'd just relax u'd find that u float,"
Shigure

"The only way 2 get 2 that point is 2 keep struggling w/ all ur might until u can't struggle anymore,"
haru
"Sometimes living can be hard but it's becuz we're alive that we can make each other laugh, cry, be happy, if that's not a reason for being born in this world... i don't know what is!" -Tohru (Fruits Basket)
"There may not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think... that everyone... Everyone might have to find one on their own. A reason for being born... A reason that is okay to be alive... A reason to exist. The reason may be vague, unclear... And uncertain but as long as you're alive you have to keep searching for that reason," Tohru

"Before u decide 2 critize someone walk a mile in their shoes. Then when u critize them u r a mile away and u have their shoes," Sisterhood of the traveling pants ( book 3 i think)
"The only place 'success' comes before 'work' is in the dictionary." - idk

I love these cuz they r meaningful yet funny, Most of these are from A manga / anime called Fruits Basket. These quotes are either just funny or are really meaningful to me. Or both!

Answer 3

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses.

Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense.

Life is like a ladder, the higher you climb, the more expansive your view is. (Taimi Megivern)

Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer you get to the end the faster it goes.

Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in our own.

Life is much like writing in ink : All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank page for your future that will soon be filled with words that can never be erased. (Gabe Suico)

Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life is really a bed of roses, others are just lucky to have friends to help them pick the thorns off.

Life is so much simpler when you tell the truth.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Life is too short to long for money.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon)

Life is what you have while you are waiting to have one.

Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it.

Life just gives you time and space. Its up to you to fill it.

Life just gives you time & space; it's up to you to fill it.

Life without you would be like a broken pencil... Pointless. (Rowan Atkinson)

Source(s):

http://www.oneliners-and-proverbs.com...

This is a few from the Life.... Category, many good quotes from all over.... I love quotes!!!

There are some really great ones up there, these included!

Answer 4

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

-David Ogilvy


I actually found this randomly on the computer one time. It just reminds me that when I do something, I need to do it 100%, regardless of the situation. I believe that when somebody does not give 100%, especially during competition (I'm an athlete), that it is a slap in the face to themselves as well as their opponent.

Answer 5

"Oh, maybe I'm glad, maybe I'm sad, maybe I'm a little mad."

Carl Barks wrote it in a Disney comic. An inventor, Gyro Gearloose, creates a machine that interpets what animals are saying. He uses it on a song bird and asks why it sings, and the bird answers with the above.

I always enjoyed it because while we try so hard to understand everything around us through science, we sometimes forget to just sit back and enjoy it.

Answer 6

"Nunc scio qui est amour" (Now I know what love is) - Unknown source

" We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde

"May it be to you a light in dark places. One you can follow when all other lights go out" - Lord of the Rings

"When you were born, all around you smiled and only you cried. Live your life so that when you leave all around you cry and only you can smile" - Unkown

Answer 7

I can't tell you who wrote it cause I don't know but this quote has stayed with me for many years and it always brings a little relief to what ever situation comes along that makes me remember it.

From the moment we are born, from the craddle to the hearse,
nothing is ever so bad, that it couldn't be worse.

Makes sense to me!

Answer 8

My favorite is not by some famous person, or out of a book or movie. It is my own and I think everyone should live by it. The world would be a much better place if everyone would think like this. "Be nice, No one likes a jacka$$."

Answer 9

When you step out of the light, into the darkness of the unknown, faith is believing that one of two things will happen, you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Answer 10

Be not like the spoon which knows not the taste of the soup!

I tasted the soup after I squeezed the Charmin!

Answer 11

My fave is "Carpe Diem"...this means "Seize the day". This is a Latin quote...I'm not sure who quoted it. I love it because it basically says: Live each day to the fullest!