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 WellIf 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 disasterAnd 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 BrandonTo 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) Poetry Paths Want to Submit Poetry? Go Here!The Dragons And the Angels A Few Of Us Must Walk The Day Has Come Awaken A Selection of Poems from Chandra An Inspirational Poem Touch of a Morning Dove Creature of Power Death of an Innocent Friend Without a Face Whirlwind Mind Love Wordspeak The Passing of Summer's Warmth Spirit A True Howl Rivers Guidelines for submitting poetry Quote Page Main Poetry Page Trail Map
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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 disasterAnd 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 BrandonTo 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
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
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent --Marianne Moore "Silence"
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
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
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
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness --Henry David Thoreau Journal
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
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)