Quotes
This has now become a page of a variety of quotes that have tickled my fancy. What exactly is my fancy, you ask? I don't know and I don't think I want to know and what are you doing asking me this anyway? Go read my quotes!
- "Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking." --Mae West
- "The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
- "The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. The pragmatist, being thirsty, drinks the water."
- "Life's a puzzle the thoughtful solve, but most choose not to get involved." --Shelter
- "Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap." --Frank Herbert
- "Chaos is the ruler of the mind."
- "If at first you don't succeed, don't take any more stupid chances."
- "It's only a fool who judges life by what he sees in other people's eyes." --Strung Out
- "The score was Hydrogen: 2 and Oxygen: 1, when the game was called because of rain."
- "Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man." --Johann Kaspar Lavater
- "i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." --E.E. Cummings
- "The true mystery of the world is not the invisible but the visible." --Oscar Wilde
- "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it was always meant to be. If it doesn't, track it down and kill it."
- "Most people die with their music still locked up inside them." --Benjamin Disraeli
- "Things are not what they seem to be, nor are they otherwise." --Lankavatara Sutra
- "Pure thought is competant enought to comprehend the world." --Albert Einstein
- "The map is not the territory." --Alfred Korzybski
- "If it looks like wisdom, but is unkind rather than loving, it's not wisdom. If it feels like love, but it's not wise, it's not love." --Lama Surya Das
- you cannot harm me
you cannot harm
one who has dreamed a dream like mine.
- --Dakota saying
- "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars." --Serbian proverb
- i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
- --E.E. Cummings
- "You were the rim of the world--it's beginning. Primary. In the first shadow the new sun threw, you carried inside you all there was of startled and startling life. And you were there to do it when the things of the world needed words. Before you were named, you were already naming." --Toni Morrison
- "A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." --Mahatma Gandhi
- "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- "No wild beast is there, no flame of fire, more fierce and untameable than woman." --Aristophanes
- "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." --Quo. 3:1
- "Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good." --Quo. 9:18
- "Your desires, whether or not you achieve them, will determine who you become."
- "What is a man advantaged, if he gains the whole world and loses himself?" --Eccl.
- "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." --Quo. 9:11
- "True love is a love without possessiveness. There must be joy and freedom and understanding in love." --Thich Nhat Hanh
- "Life is now and zooming by/The moment is the highest high." --Ray Cappo
- "The sanity of the body is the sanity of the mind; the violation of the body is the violation of the mind." --Thich Nhat Hanh