What is your favorite meaningful quote(s)?

Question

Just wondering :)

Answer 1

"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean.

LOVE this quote. It's amazing. Another, along the same lines, by William Purkey:

Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth
And speak from the heart to be heard.

Answer 2

"Home is where the heart is."

"Take the gun. Leave the cannoli."

Never argue with small minded people that have positions of power.

Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Answer 3

"never take anything for granite, cause that's what tombstones are made of."

that was a joke in a book I read when I was little, but it's actually fairly accurate.

a more serious one.

"those who ignore the past are bound to repeat it."



I love that because I love history, and it makes me worry when ppl trivialize the importance of knowing our heritage and learning from history. If you learn a lesson from someone else, you don't have to experience the bad part.

"let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone."

there is such a tendency to attack others in our own hypocrisy.

Answer 4

Thank God for those who wish us well. The ones who don't can go to hell. That saying is always meaningful when I've had a bad day and I have a cold beer in my hand! :)

Answer 5

"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."

or

"To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go"

This is actually part of a song to see the rest go here

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/O'Toole/impossibledream-lyrics.htm

Both quotes are from the story of "Don Quixote"
written by Miguel De Cervantes

Answer 6

My mother ( b 2-19-1928 d- 4-8-1983)
She used to tell me and my brother stuff like:
"If God would have intended for you to talk more than you listen, He would have given you two mouths"
OR:
"Honesty is always the best policy"
OR:
"Seeing is believing"
OR:
"Do unto others, as you'd like to be treated"
Stuff like that,,,,, I can't really remember all of them, but that's just a sample of how honest and good she was. She will always be missed.

Answer 7

'the richest man without a friend is poor with all he has to spend. alone, with all that could be had, each one of us would still be sad'- unknown author (part of a poem)

'you know, andrew, the opposite of love isn't hate, its indifference. and if you hate me, that means you still care. and we're still connected. and i still have a chance to set you right'- Bree (desperate housewives)

'i need to know that things are gonna look up, cause i feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup, when there is no place safe and no safe place to rest my head, when you feel the world shake from the words that are said...when children have to play inside so they dont disappear while private eyes solve marriage lies cause we dont talk for years and football teams are kissing queens and losing sight of having dreams in a world that what we want is only what we want until its ours'-train (calling all angels)

'There was fear and danger in everything, and it was a wonder we weren't paralyzed by the possibility of death, the threat of disaster in the routine pleasures of cars, toasters, the air, tuna fish, our friends. Nellie might have done something that to her seemed reasonable, such as scrubbing the bathtub with a powerful cleaning agent, only to find that it had leached through to her skin and into her blood and killed her child.'-Jane Hamilton (a map of the world)

'love is what's in the room with you at christmas if you stop opening presents and listen'- seven year old boy

'so look up, take it away, dont look da-da-da down the mountain. if the world isn't turning, your heart won't return anyone, anything, anyhow. so take me, dont leave me, take me, dont leave me, baby, love will come through, its just waiting for you.'-travis (love will come through)

'But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?'-mark twain

Answer 8

"Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains, its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

--Og Mantino

"Some people never get over their past accomplishments.
Even worse are the people who exaggerate what they have done.For years I kept an invisible sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective
concerning yesterday...
It said, 'YESTERDAY ENDED LAST NIGHT.'
It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past or how commendable my works have become, it's DONE and TODAY is a NEW DAY."

--- John Maxwell

Answer 9

"She put her troubles in the bottom of a trunk,
sat on it,
and laughed!"

"If I have to explain it...you wouldn't understand!"

"If a man were to know the end of this day's business,
'ere it come...
but it suffices that
this day shall end;
and then the end be known.
If we should meet again,
well,
then we'll smile;
and if not,
why, then...
this parting was well made."

"Fools rush in where even Angels fear to tread."

"...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..."

"Everybody's DIFFERENT, Amy!"
(my husband said that to me, YEARS AGO, and I've never forgotten it....it may symbolize the chief reason
I fell in love with
(and married)
him....

Answer 10

found in the back of a phone book- A man wakes up in the morning after sleeping on an advertised bed, in advertised pajamas. he will bathe in an advertised tub, wash with advertised soap, shave with an advertised razor, eating a breakfast of advertised juice, cereal, and toast( toasted in an advertised toaster), he will put on advertised clothes, and glance at his advertised watch. he will then ride to work in an advertised car,sit at an advertised desk, and write with an advertised pen. yet, this man hesitates to advertise, saying advertising doesn't pay. finally, when this man's unadvertised business goes under, he will advertise it for sale.