What is your favorite quote?

Answer 1

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not baost, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts. always hopes, always perserves. Love never fails."
-- 1 Corinthiams 13:4-8--

Answer 2

My favorite quote from ancient literature is:

But the man who can be most truly accounted brave is he who best knows the meaning of what is sweet in life and of what is terrible, and then goes out undeterred to meet what is to come.
-History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides

My favorite quote from classic literature is:

Who blames me? Many, no doubt; and I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third story, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind’s eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it- and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended- a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence.
-Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Answer 3

"anything is worth doing as long as its soul is not small"

Author unknown to me at this time..but from Brazilian literature... most likely a version of a quote by Emerson...

Among many other quotes this was in my mind today!
For how can I do so faul an act to so much poetry, prose, and thought with picking a favorite among so many and so much anyways...?

Answer 4

One of my favorite quotes is, "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success" by Alexander Graham Bell. It justifies my intention to always have a plan in life.

Answer 5

I have 3 favorite quotes.

1 - He who sits on a cactus will rise up again - From my nieghboor who passed away last year

2 - Knit on!

3 - Courage is what it takes to stand up and talk, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen

Answer 6

There is neither happiness or unhappiness in this world; there is only comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss... - Count of Monte Cristo

You do it today because today is yesterday's tomorrow. - Spongebob

The life which is unexamined is not worth living - Plato

Answer 7

Apathy--a psychological term for a state of indifference — where an individual is unresponsive or "indifferent" to aspects of emotional, social, or physical life.

“Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.”--quote by Helen Keller (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf)

I have it posted on my Profile.....

One of the best questions I've seen on Yahoo since I've been a Member...You get a Star....Thank You!!!

Answer 8

"There are some people, and I am one of them, who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe. We think that for a landlady considering a lodger, it is important to know his income, but still more important to know his philosophy. We think that for a general about to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy. We think the question is not whether the theory of the cosmos affects matters, but whether, in the long run, anything else affects them."

G.K. Chesterton

Answer 9

All conditioned phenomena
Are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow
Like the dew, or like lightning
You should discern them like this

from the Diamond Sutra

Answer 10

New Testament John 11:25, 26
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”