Quotes For Every Situation

(okay so maybe not every one...but SHHH! Don't tell :Þ)

Well, didn't just want to write a whole bunch of quotes down and make you all confused about it. So this section is neatly arranged into sections. Just click on them to go there!

Life

Silence and Speech

Age

Love and Friendship

Faith

Beauty

Fear

Other


Life

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not one finds, it is something one creates.
--Shakespeare Alls Well that Ends Well

If you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for hteir doubting too;
If you can meet w/ triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same..
yours is the earth and everything in it.
--Proverbs 16:32

Life is like a rollercoaster, you can't see the big hill, but you know its coming
--Tim Brandon

To live is to feel oneself lost
Frank Kafka, diary entry 1914

The spice of life..that so oft in stinging the tongue brings sweetness to life's other fruits.
Asha'maan

As more people achieve some degree of mental calm, insight, or the ability to transform negative emotions into positive ones, there will be a natural reinforcement of basic human values and consequently a great chance for peace and happiness for all.
--The Dalai Lama

Silence

Speech is of time, Silence is of eternity
--Sohn Cage Silence

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent
--Marianne Moore "Silence"

Age

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
--Simone de Beauvour The Coming of Age

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
--Jack Benny New York Times

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene if older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
--William Shakespeare Much ado About Nothing

Love and Friendship

No act of kindness, no mater how small, is ever wasted
--Aesop Fables

The beauty of the world has two edges, one is laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
--Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzera Sontra

What is a friend?
One soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, but not as many as common
--Unknown

Sometimes you have to grow farther apart to keep growing together.
--Unknown

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
--Caroline Norton

Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.
--Bill Waterson

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute meant old friend of mine, to me along the way.
--Edgar A. Guest

Faith

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
--BibleHebrews 11:1

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them
--Samuel Butler Notebooks

Live and Learn

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle
--Samuel Johnson
--quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

Beauty

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful
--John Rushin The Stones of Venice

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness
--Henry David Thoreau Journal

Fear

I do believe one ought to face facts. If you don't they get behind you and may become terrors, nightmares, giants, horrors.
--Katherine Mansfield

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
--Marie Curie

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
--Cardinal Newman

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
--Andre Gide

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
--Thomas Merton

Other

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
--Jose Ortega y Gasset (1900's)

Read for ideas, not for authors.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1900's)

Burn the book, throw it away. Wnen you give importance to something so trivial as who the Master is, you are making the whole of existence into a very petty affair. You see, we always want to know who the Master is, who the learned person is, who the artist is that painted the picture. We never want to discover for ourselves the content of the picture irrespective of the identity of the artist. If you perceive that a picture is beautiful and you feel very grateful, does it really matter to you who painted it? If your one concern is to find the content, the truth of the picture, then the picture communicated its significance.
--Krishnamurti (1900's)

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