Favorite quote?

Question

What is your favorite quote(s). Why is it or why are they? What does it mean to you?

Answer 1

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
- Dennis Wholey

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain

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

The general Principles, on which the Fathers achieved Independence, were the general Principles of Christianity.
-John Adams

Answer 2

"Problem... or inconvenience?" From a book by Robert Fulghum, regarding how to look at situations in life. He heard it from a holocaust survivor when he (Fulghum) was complaining that he had been served sausages 5 days running. He looked at the young man claiming that this was a problem, an outrage, something to get hugely upset about... and pointed out that it was an inconvenience, NOT a problem! It's a good way to stop yourself from taking things too seriously.

Other favorites: When one door closes, another one opens... but it's hell in the hallway.

Of course your parents know how to push your buttons... they installed them!

Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

If you lend someone $100 and they don't pay you back - it was probably worth it.

Answer 3

Before you criticize someone, you should try walking a mile in their shoes. That way when you *do* criticize them, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes!

LOL

There is a core moral there...that is, don't critcize or judge others. It's a call to empathize with others, regardless of their circumstances. But I just love the twist of humor! hehehe
It makes me laugh...and laughter is the best medicine for whatever ails you. :)

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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a fishing pole and he'll eat for life.

It means that it's better to take the time to teach someone a skill that will allow them to help themselves, rather than enabling them by doing the work for them. While I believe in helping my fellow man (and sometimes that means feeding them), it's better to teach them a useful skill. That way they can take pride in their own work and provision. That's no small thing.

Answer 4

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

It was in the inside cover of the book Running with Scissor by Augusten Burroughs. I just loved the book and the quote felt like it fit me so well . . . and the book too.

Answer 5

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." ~Japaense proverb
** pretty self-explanatory, but basically don't give up.

"In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." ~Einstein
** Even during the hardest things you may be able to find something positive.

"This life is more than just a read through." ~Red Hot Chili Peppers
** Make what you can of the life you're living, because this is the only one you're given and there aren't any redos.

Answer 6

"Let there be such oneness between us . . . that when one cries,
the other tastes salt." - Rossabelle Believe

I saw that written on the wall at the Tire Bouchon creperie at the top of Montmartre in Paris.

I like it, because that's exactly the kind of love I have been searching for my whole life, someone who feels my joys, and experiences my pains, and I his. I plan on using that in my wedding vows some day.

Answer 7

Freedom is a choice made, Not a gift given. It means that we have to accept responsibility for our actions or the lack of them as the case may be.

Answer 8

As you think, So you become.

It is one powerful quote which means a lot to me, its self explanatory and instills a positive aura within you

Answer 9

I have several----the last one about the angels impressed me so much that I had a wing tattooed on my right shoulder. I have them in my 'signatures', so they are all in every email I send.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
~anonymous~

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." -Gilda Radner

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seus

"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other." -Comte de Bussy Rabutin

Answer 10

Be Happy Forever