2006-10-21 11:01:04 · 23 answers · asked by Eryn 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
i'm a quotes fan... :)
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -Descartes
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. -Buddha
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. -Dawna Markova
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus." – Alexander Graham Bell
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in our soul
perish, in the lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it impossible, it's yours."
Rand, Ayn , from John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask oursleves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
~ Nelson Mandela
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Ayn Rand
Great things start from small beginnings...growing up, reach early for your dreams...face the day, it's a new challenge...a chance to be better...a chance to become your dreams -MILO commercial theme song
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-excerpt from Invictus by William Ernest Henley
solitude and silence teach me to love people for what they are, not for what they say.
solitude and silence teach me to love people for what they are, not for what they say.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Rome was not built in a day.
He who knows what is good will do good. - Socrates
many waters can not quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than risk it took to blossom.
To succeed, you must fail. Most attempts end in failure, but that is the only chance for great success. Expect failure, learn from it when it happens, and plan your next attempt.
meeting you was fate. becoming your friend was a choice. falling in love with you was beyond my control.
we are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it. but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
courage is not absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2006-10-21 11:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by abstemious_entity 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I forgot wich philosopher said it, but my favorite quote is " Only the dead have seen the end of war" My next favorite would be by Benjamin Franklin, " Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
2006-10-21 11:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by eric s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about life?
"Only one life, 'twill soon be past; Only what's done for Christ will last." (C. T. Studd)
about love?
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ( Bible- John 15:13)
about friendship? see ^ about love ^
about etc?
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. ( Geoffrey C. Ward)
2006-10-21 11:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone
"Just keep Livin, L-I-V-I-N" Matthew McConaughey in dazed and confused. (for his father in life)
2006-10-21 11:13:33 · answer #4 · answered by cecilia m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love knows not it's own depth till the hour of seperation
2006-10-21 11:14:59 · answer #5 · answered by HeavenBound 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When she had sucked the marrow from my bone,
I turned to her, languid as a stone,
To give her one last kiss...and saw her thus,
a slimy rotten wineskin full of pus.
Baudelaire
2006-10-21 11:45:20 · answer #6 · answered by You really_believe_that_shit? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
" In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2006-10-21 11:50:23 · answer #7 · answered by Lucky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to love something is to realize that it might be lost.
2006-10-21 11:11:11 · answer #8 · answered by zomplexi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is sort of aimed for girls but
"You go through high school not to find a husband, but to find your bridesmaids"
2006-10-21 11:08:51 · answer #9 · answered by DestinationUNKNOWN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
"Do not let life happen to you; you happen to life."
"Forgive our enemies, but never forget their names."
"For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow."
2006-10-21 15:39:36 · answer #10 · answered by missalee03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋