do you know any quotes?

Question

i need something to Really make me think about where i am and who i am and where i should be and what i should be doing. quotes to put up around my house to remind me. its part of my self help efforts. im looking for hope in this hopeless place we call life.

Answer 1

There's a book called, "Barlett's Famous Quotations". I recommend checking this out at your local library. It's the best source.

Answer 2

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
—William Wordsworth

Carpe Diem! Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary!
—Prof. John Keating
Robin Williams' character in Dead Poets Society, 1989

People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anais Nin

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
—George Bernard Shaw

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
—Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes


When life gives you oranges, enjoy. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
—Anonymous

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
—Benjamin Franklin

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
—Will Durant

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

—Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken, 1920

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
Walden, 1854

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
—Robert Anthony

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
—Aristotle
Politics, 350 B.C.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
—Victor Borge

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
—Burton Hills
Think, Think On and Think Again

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
—Mark Twain

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
—Thomas Edison

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
—William Feather

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
—Beverly Sills

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson


Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
—Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894

Answer 3

Here are a few that i hope will help

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." Thoreau

"The unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates/Plato

"The unplanned life is not worth examining" Aristotle

"Imagine that you have died and have received the gift of a new life. Live it, full of wondrous gratitude, in sweet accord with nature."
Marcus Aurelius

"Come round, put yourself together, wake up! Admit that what's troubling you are dreams, the products of a lively imagination. Start to see things for what they are again." Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations holds a great wealth of knowledge on this topic, i would highly suggest picking it up.

Answer 4

ok here are a few::

better keep urself clean and bright;
you are the window with which u see the world..

im starting with the man in the mirror
im asking him to change his ways
and no message could have been clearer
if u want to make the world a better place
take a look at yourself and then make a change-- Sidah Garrett and glen ballard

always be a first rate version of yourself
instead of a second rate version of someone else- judy garland

people are just abt as happy as they make up their mind to be- abe linclon

Answer 5

Where you sit,
is where you stand.

Simply meaning that where you have placed yourself in government is what makes you decide what you are going to do. Mostly tow the party line.
I think this is an ugly quote, but it's too true.
The second quote comes from my mother. It's an ancient Spanish proverb.
"The Devil loves his children so very much,
he gouges out their eyes so they don't have to see the misery of the world.
Simply means that those who bury their head in the sand are easy to slaughter.

Answer 6

Here are three for you, honey!

1. My favorite: "Life is what your thoughts make it." ~Marcus Aurelius
2. "If it is to be, it is up to me." ~unknown
3. "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Matthew 21:22

Best wishes! The world is full of love and you are about to realize and manifest it as you strive to inspire yourself!! I love this idea! I do this too! Go to a Christian bookstore and buy some refrigerator magnets. You do not have to be a Christian to do this...many of the products there are just generally positive. Check out this site as these stores are all over the country.
http://www.familychristian.com/ You can shop online too.
Peace and blessings, honey!!

Answer 7

"Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together..."

Answer 8

My niece, a very smart girl, once said in the course of a conversation: "I don't mind being broke as long as I have money in the bank."
She was saying that she didn't have any cash on her but she had a savings account.

Answer 9

I just happen to have a bunch of Emerson quotes sitting here. You might like them. If you do, I suggest you read "Self-Reliance", because that is where they are all taken from.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Speak what you think now in hard words,
and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.

Answer 10

I hope this helps..."No matter where you go...there you are." You can run away from people, places and things, but not yourself. Go over your traits good and bad, be honest and then accept who you are.