I have the following on my notice board - sorry can't remember where I found it:
"It's not the amount of breaths you take in a moment, but the amount of moments that take your breath away"
What's pinned to your notice board to inspire you?
2007-05-05 10:08:15 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's impossible to count the words of wisdom given by the genius that is Monty Python!
"Always look on the bright side of life dee-do dee-do, dee-do......."
2007-05-05 10:33:15 · update #1
Tammipup - wise words indeed, and they obviously inspire you greatly to live life to the full!
Sorry your dad is no longer with you in body, but he sure is in spirit!
2007-05-07 23:17:07 · update #2
It's nice to be important; but it's more important to be nice.
2007-05-05 10:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by franja 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get ran over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care about them.
If you insist on measuring something, measure your heart instead of your waist.
"It is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worthwhile the journey." ~ Wilfred Thesiger
"Some people are born great, while others have greatness thrusted upon them" ~ Teddy Roosevelt
Never get so busy making a living, that you forget to make a life.
When one door shuts, another one opens. But so often we look at the shut one we fail to see the opened one.
No one can make you feel inferior with out your consent.
You can't make foot prints in the sand of time if you are sitting on your butt.
2007-05-05 13:00:23 · answer #2 · answered by funtimes 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Live your life for what its' worth, here and now. The past is the past, we can never change that, but we can make our future a better place.Things happen for a reason, doesn't mean we understand it, or even like it. Things happen the way they do for a reason. All we can do is treasure our loves for the positive moments in it, and just be the best we can.
My Uncle once told me this one too:
In everyone's head is a set of tape players, one for positive, and one for negative. Now most people turn down the positive tape player, and turn up the negative tape player. Learn to turn the positive one up and the negative down.
toodles
2007-05-05 12:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by thetruesloth 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A societal outcast, to be forgotten at death, those people are the ones with faces. An appraised by society, the world mourns at death, they are the ones with a million masks.
That was written by me.
The world doesn’t stop for me, or for anyone else, but, in the same way I do not stop for it, although most people do.
So was that.
Identity constricts true expression.
So was that. I have a million of them.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt."
That wasn't. I think it's by Albert Einstein.
2007-05-05 11:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have printed out the lyrics of a song by Eric Idle of Monty Python from "The Meaning of Life"
It starts with: ... Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's revolving...
and end with: ...and just pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out there, because there's bugger here on earth."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JSR_6qfXTg
2007-05-05 10:19:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite words of wisdom are, "The difference between a rut and a grave is that a grave had walls on four side, a rut has walls only on the sides.
Think about this for a while.
2007-05-05 10:43:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can & the wisdom to know the difference."
Some things in life you can control/change, so do it. Other things you can't control or change so don't bother worrying about them. I can control how tidy my house is. I can control how I feel & react to situations. I can't control the weather, other drivers, death etc. So there you are. Wise words to live by.
Also I liked this quote & kept it and have tried to live by it:
"Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong."
That includes bubble baths by candlelight, taking care of myself, doing things I enjoy, being kind to myself. It really works.
Cheers.
:)
2007-05-05 10:23:29 · answer #7 · answered by amp 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Among many:
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night
To defy power which seems omnipotent
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent
This is to be good, great and joyous, beautiful and free
This is a lone life
Joy--empire--victory
A very old quote, but look between the lines--from YOUR perspective....
2007-05-05 18:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-03-05 00:36:55 · answer #9 · answered by Villarreal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul." - Walt Whitman"
It's kind of like what my father used to say.. don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read.
Today, there is so much misinformation and falsehoods disguised as truth, that ultimately you have stop, step outside of the crowded spaces and ask, 'just what is it that I believe? What does not sit well with me?' Sometimes, you just have to go with your gut.
Peace
2007-05-05 11:14:44 · answer #10 · answered by zingis 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Fair is not the same as equal. Fair means that everyone gets what he/she needs. Equal means that everyone gets the same thing and that's not always fair." -- Andi Ivey, Educator
"The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems, for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him for very long." -- A.W. Tozer
"The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." -- John Holt
here is agood one ..:-
"You've got to...dance like there's no one watching, love like you can never get hurt, sing like there's no one listening, live like it is heaven on earth, and teach from the heart to be heard." -- Bill Purkey
"I am only one, but I am someone. I can't do everything, but I can do something." -- unknown
"The greatest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets from it, but what he becomes by it." -- unknown
People are never limited by circumstances, but only by their horizons.
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” unknown ..
Hope you enjoy them ..
have a great day ..
Good luck ..
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2007-05-05 10:43:52 · answer #11 · answered by valentino's 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋