Thread: Favorite Quotations

Originally Posted by melanieb

I think you should have kept your first post

Yea, I'm not sure why I deleted them except that this one seemed to sum it up the best.
I'll post them again although there are about a dozen others I'd like to add to the list....


Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. -Buddha

Optimists hallucinate; pessimists get depressed. Both will not get anywhere. You must be willing to see everything the way it is. -Sadhguru

Originally Posted by Mikasan527

- First you need give up all fear. - My subconsciousness

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind. -Sadhguru

Don't cross the bridge until you get to it. - My grandpa whom probably quoted it from somebody else.

Suuuuzie, you just gotta chill. - Mose from that one episode of Neds declassified school survival guide.

They talk most who have the least to say. - Matthew Prior

Be obscure clearly. - E. B. White

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. - Epictetus

No matter how good a game is, somebody will always hate it. No matter how bad a game is, somebody will always love it.

- One shmups forum user

“Not all those who wander are lost.”


― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.”
(Arthur K. Watson)

"Remember, it's all about those memories you'll never forget"
-Above&Beyond, UMF 2013

"Nature does hurry, and yet all is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

"Learn all the rules so you know how to break them properly" -Dalai Lama

That quote has gotten me away with so many things in the Army regarding dress code.

Originally Posted by AURON

"Learn all the rules so you know how to break them properly" -Dalai Lama

That quote has gotten me away with so many things in the Army regarding dress code.

AR 670-1, lol.

That's a good archetype for rules that are meant to be broken.

>_<

That quote was supposed to be "Nature does NOT hurry, and yet all is accomplished."

That's what I get for using quickreply without c&p.

"I find my life intensely interesting. If it were not so I should probably commit suicide, for as Camus so bluntly suggested, the only serious philosophical question is whether or not to commit suicide."

-Alan Watts in In My Own Way

"Candy reminds us of the postmodern notion of self-creation—the way we don social signifiers with the same ease as clothing, constructing our selves bit by bit from cultural cues and images. Rather than the solid frameworks we cast them as, our selves are more like sweaters we put on and take off. When it comes to social identity, we’re all a wee bit in drag."
-Caroline Hagood, on Candy Darling

"Now do your own dance, I challenge you! Dance, if you're not a coward!"
-Daffy Duck

Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -Mike Tyson

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

-Banksy

"the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that makes us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation. a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka

"i would rather be ashes than dust. i would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. i would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. the proper function of man is to live, not to exist. i shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. i shall use my time."

jack london

Here are a few quotations, taken from mine personal quote log.

"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" ~A Bronx Tale

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool" ~William Shakespeare

"The greatness of evil lies in its awful accuracy. Without that deadly talent for being in the right place at the right time, evil must suffer defeat. For unlike its opposite, good, evil is allowed no human failings, no miscalculations. Evil must be perfect, or depend upon the imperfections of others" ~The Outer Limits

"Old age and greed will always overcome youth and talent" ~Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"Hear all, trust nothing" ~Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone. Including their parents" ~Jean-Luc Picard

"The first time any person's freedom is trodden upon, we're all damaged" ~Jean-Luc Picard

"Looking sharp is easy when you haven't done any work" ~Despair.com

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The smart left a long time ago" ~Despair.com

"No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them" ~Despair.com

"Everyone has their own little internal world, a secret garden only they can enter. Each world follows its own internal logic: individuality. And the logic of one world means nothing in another. Understanding other people isn't hard... It's impossible" ~Yoshiya Kiryu

Martin Luther King Jr:

"If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. What's a new definition of greatness? In this morning, the thing that I like about it, is that by giving that definition of greatness... it means everybody can be great." (source)

"I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few, and leave millions of God's children smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society." (source)

H. Rap Brown:

"I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of American culture - it is as American as cherry pie. American culture has taught people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free by any means necessary." (source)

"There is no in-between - you're either free or you're a slave. There's no such thing as second-class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant..." (source)

Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

"You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed. And you're afraid to bleed. I said, you're afraid to bleed." (source)

" How are you going to be nonviolent in Mississippi, as violent as you were in Korea? How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you're going to be violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else that you don't even know?

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country." (source)

Tupac Amaru Shakur:

"In the event of my demise,
When my heart can beat no more,
I hope I die for a principle,
Or a belief that I had lived for."

"I'm not saying that I'll change the world, bu I guarantee that I will spark the brain of the person that will change the world." (source)

Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In all ages metaphysicians have been so skillful in splitting principles, as to puzzle mankind in their search after truth; and morality itself would be lost by the minuteness of their dissections, except for the resistance of common sense, and the dictates of unsophisticated conscience. But the achievement of losing twenty-four sovereign states by the acuteness of construction, and getting rid of a people in each, by means of the word necessary to describe them, was reserved for the refined politicians of the present day; and is equivalent to the ingenuity of a fisherman, who should lose a whale by a definition of his name, which would destroy his qualities." - John Taylor of Caroline

"No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark." - Nathaniel Macon

"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours."

-- Richard Bach

Favorite Quotations:

''We're all damaged in our own way, Nobody is perfect." -Johnny Depp
"I am as bad as the worse, but, thank God, I am as good as the best." - Walt Whitman"

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

― T.S. Eliot


I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

― Michael Jordan


Postponement fertilizes fear; action cures fear.

― Schwartz


I'd rather have a mind opened by wonder rather than closed by belief.

― Gerry Spence


In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

― George Orwell

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

”When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.”

I love this one.

"That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback."

This is one of my favorites

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."