I am buying myself a nice journal from Aspinal of London and there is the option of having it personalised. I am looking for a really nice phrase or quote (something short) that will mean something to me everyday. I'm thinking perhaps something in latin? Anyone got any good ideas?
To help you out, I am quite a philosopical person although not religious. I value the simple things in life and want to remind myself of that with this phrase.
Thanks
2007-06-29 00:34:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Esse quam videri.
It means "To be rather than to seem". Sort of, be true to yourself and don't just follow the crowd and be superficial.
2007-06-29 01:54:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A posse ad esse - From possibility to actuality
Aude sapere - Dare to know
Aurora Musis amica - Dawn is friend of the muses.
Salve veritate - Saving the truth
Scribere est agere - To write is to act
Sona si latine loqueris - Honk if you speak Latin
Struit insidias lacrimis *** femina plorat - When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears.
Oratvr fit, poeta nascitvr - An orator is made [but] a poet is born
Peccavi - I have sinned
Viri sunt viri - Men are slime
2007-06-29 02:40:11 · answer #2 · answered by Village Player 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carpe Noctrum
Carpe Nostrum
2007-06-29 01:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carpe Nostrum
2017-01-15 14:51:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This are various qoutes from the "Little Prince"
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
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"What makes the desert beautiful," says the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications.
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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.
On ne sait jamais!
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One never knows!
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
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Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
2007-06-29 00:43:25 · answer #5 · answered by shadowhunter93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right it rather is a pair of songs : one million. Elvis Presley : "thoughts" (words & music via invoice unusual - Scott Davis) thoughts, pressed between the pages of my thoughts thoughts, sweetened by the a protracted time only like wine Quiet thoughts come floating down And settle softly to the floor Like golden autumn leaves around my ft I touched them and that they burst aside with candy thoughts, candy thoughts Of retaining palms and crimson bouquets And twilight trimmed in pink haze And guffawing eyes and easy techniques And quiet nights and delicate days with you thoughts, pressed between the pages of my thoughts thoughts, sweetened by the a protracted time only like wine, thoughts, thoughts, candy thoughts 2. "reminiscence" from the musical Cats (The lyrics, written via Trevor Nunn, have been in accordance with T. S. Eliot's poems "Preludes" and "Rhapsody on a Windy night") ineffective night no longer a valid from the pavement Has the moon lost her reminiscence? She is smiling on my own interior the lamplight, the withered leaves convey collectively at my ft And the wind starts off to moan reminiscence, all on my own interior the moonlight i will dream of the previous days i replaced into pleasing then I bear in mind the time I knew what happiness replaced into enable the reminiscence stay back each streetlamp looks to beat A fatalistic warning somebody mutters and the line lamp gutters and quickly it will be morning daylight hours i could anticipate the dawn i could think of of a clean existence and that i shouldn't supply in. whilst the dawn comes this night would be a reminiscence too And a clean day will start up (music interlude) Burnt out ends of smoky days The stale chilly scent of morning A streetlamp dies; yet another night is over yet another day is dawning... touch me! it rather is very easy to pass away me all on my own with the reminiscence Of my days interior the solar... in case you touch me, you will understand what happiness is look, a clean day has started.
2016-10-19 03:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up"
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come - (My favourite)
2007-06-29 00:46:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Vini Vidi Visa"
"I came. I saw. I went shopping."
2007-06-29 03:22:27 · answer #8 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about "Temet Nosce"
"Know thyself"
2007-06-29 01:03:52 · answer #9 · answered by JOhn M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple living, high thinking
2007-06-29 02:12:53 · answer #10 · answered by ps 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋