What is your favorite quote and why.....?

Answer 1

It's a tie.
"I have found the great paradox of love is if you love until it hurts, there is no more hurt only more love."
Mother Teresa

"Be kind whenever possible. it is always possible."
H.H. The Dalai Lama

Edit- ohhh, I like Waterlilly's answer. That is my favorite prayer.

I think that anyone can follow the advice and that the world would benefit greatly if more people did.

Answer 2

"I know I'm special because God doesn't make junk"
I always loved this because middle school can be hard, life in general is hard. Every time I started to feel like I was worthless and I didn't think I was very special or have very high self-confidence, I would remember this, and immediately feel a little bit better.

I also like the quote, "I have never seen someone with a smile on their face who wasn't beautiful."
I just think this is a really cool quote, and it reminds me that we are all beautiful, as long as we look at life ando our problems the right way. It reminds me to be more positive, and I have noticed that not only do people look more beautiful when they smile, they feel more beautiful!

OOhh, and one last one! There are so many good ones...
"Treat people as if they already were what they are capable of becoming"

Answer 3

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B Yeats
From his poem " The Second Coming"

One of my favorites because more and more it looks like prophesy. It seems very relevant today.

Answer 4

I have two:

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things"
Philippians 4:8

This helps me stay focused on doing what's right in the Lord's eyes.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau

This helps me understand that it's okay to be different because of what I believe in.

Answer 5

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. --Douglas Adams

I don't know if either of them are true, to be honest, but I don't think I've ever laughed harder than when I read that.

Answer 6

1 Corinthians 2:9

King James Bible

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him

Why? Because I can only imagine now....but one day I will know what Heaven will be like. I can only imagine....

Answer 7

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
- Hannah Arendt

Because it keeps me thinking on both sides of the table, and gives me the chance to use some foresight to see if what i want is what is really needed. there's a second side to everything. sometimes a third. and so on.

Answer 8

"If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen" Harry Truman.

"If you take a dog out of the street and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man." Mark Twain

Answer 9

"Know thyself" -- Socrates. A powerful command to understand without divine revelation.

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." -- Jesus. Even though I'm an atheist, I think this is one of the most beautiful statements on the human condition I've ever heard.

Answer 10

Loosely quoted.....Responsible government's only duty is to uphold the individual." -Albert Einstein