Favorite Quotations

[Phion]

So what are they? I have a great many favorite quotations from a plethora of places; actors, poets, singers, business people, scientists, philosophers, spiritual figures, and then some. Who are some of your favorite people and their famous quotes? In what way have they inspired your life, if at all? Here are a few of mine: "Love begets love. This torment is my joy." --Theodore Roethke "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." --Hermann Hesse "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell." --Buddha "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." --Dalai Lama "The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing." --Socrates "A year from now you will wish you had started today." --Karen Lamb "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." --Benjamin Franklin "I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. --Richard Feynman Show me some quotes!

[BobbyLance]

Living is breathing but not doing. -Jean Jacques Rousseau There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. -Jose Rizal ...because sometimes, the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes, people deserve more. Sometimes, people deserve to have their faith rewarded. -Batman/Scriptwriter in other words, lying is good(well... maybe sometimes) Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

[tropicalbreeze]

as soon as man awakens for a moment and opens his eyes, all the forces that caused him to fall asleep begin to act upon him with tenfold energy and he immediately falls asleep again, very often dreaming that he is awake or is awakening. - george gurdjieff I AM is the only thing anyone has ever known or will ever know. everything else, all religion, philosophy, and science, can never be more than dream interpretations. there is no other fact than I AM. - jed mckenna it is not that you must be free from fear. the moment you try to free yourself from fear, you create a resistance against fear. resistance in any form doesn't end fear. what is needed rather than running away or controlling, or suppressing or any other resistance is understanding fear. that means watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. - j. krishnamurti "if you really want to know who i am, you have to be as absolutely empty as i am. then two mirrors will be facing each other and only emptiness will be mirrored. infinite emptiness will be mirrored. but if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me." - Osho

[Morten]

. Stop panic. we trying fix chat.

[ColdCrisis]

Odd ones,but good ones And I will always hope. Until my last dying breath. - Saint Walker "God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand." - Richard Feynman "Cheese is milk gone off big time stylie" - Stephen Fry

[Warheit]

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. -- Joseph Campbell I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.-- Thomas Jefferson The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -- John Locke

[nicromno]

"Sooner or later it was going to catch up with you. You'd find that lady luck was a hooker and you were fresh out of cash" - Max Payne "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all." - Abraham Lincoln

[Wayfaerer]

"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[RebelSeven]

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." G.K. Chesterton "Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence." Dorothea Dix "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." Friedrich Nietzsche "Everyone remotely interesting is mad in one way or another" "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." -- August Strindberg

[Phion]

Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Phion]

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. -W.B. Yeats

[Phion]

I've decided the act that cannot wait Is the important will to create But, ah, if my belly is ignored The pantry door shall implore But I've been known to reach the bed Ideas still famished in my head. -Roman Payne

[Phion]

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -Franz Kafka

[Xei]

"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own." ~ Bertrand Russell "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." ~ Thomas Jefferson "Our line is too short to fathom such immense abysses." ~ David Hume

[OctoberWind]

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein

[RebelSeven]

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." Euripides "Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table." W.H. Auden "It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." Mahatma Gandhi

[Xei]

-Albert Einstein * Said Albert Einstein.

[Phion]

She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? -Shakespeare

[Phion]

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. -Carl Sandburg

[Ilumirath]

Let them stare. It means I still exist and still matter. -My brother You can bump your chest and roar like an animal, but all that can be taken away from you in a single moment. -Fedor Emelianenko

[dutchraptor]

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw And my favourite one I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

[Phion]

Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? -Virginia Woolf

[Tekeydie]

If you don't believe we evolved as a species because we are naturally inclined to support one another then what do you believe stops us killing one another? lol

[Phion]

lol Who said that?

[Castles]

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. -Shakespeare