Memorable & Meaningful Quotes

[Deidre]

Thought this would be a nice addition to the forum. Feel free to post quotes that you feel are memorable, and meaningful in some way. Can be secular or religious, anything goes.

I posted this one today in my status, first time I've ran across it:

“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.” ~Proverb

Looking forward to yours!

 

[Mequa]

"Give up all hope of a better past."

 

[Sunstone]

"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- Ambrose Bierce.

 

[Sunstone]

"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good empty experience." -- Woody Allen.

 

[Sunstone]

I believe that life can go on forever. It takes a million years to evolve a new species, ten million for a new genus, one hundred million for a class, a billion for a phylum -- and that's usually as far as your imagination goes. In a billion years, it seems, intelligent life might be as different from humans as humans are from insects. But what would happen in another ten billion years? It's utterly impossible to conceive of ourselves changing as drastically as that, over and over again. All you can say is, on that kind of time scale the material form that life would take is completely open. To change from a human being to a cloud may seem a big order, but it's the kind of change you'd expect over billions of years. -Freeman Dyson, physicist (b. 1923)

 

[Deidre]

These ^^ are great!

Mequa, I LOVE that quote...it is so true...how often do we spend time thinking back to our pasts, wishing they were different? They are gone, and today is all we have. Thanks for posting that.


Mine for today...I love Nietzsche...think he possessed a brilliant, and incredibly insightful mind...

We love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.

Bet you didn't think Nietzsche had a soft side. lol

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

To be is to stand for. - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

[Twilight Hue]

Hell is ok as long as it's over the first time.

 

[Spiderman]

Do not meet your problems halfway. " St Teresa of Avila

in other words, don't worry about the future.

 

[Spiderman]

“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

 

[Deidre]

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

I've always liked that one, too bad I don't heed that advice enough.

 

[icehorse]

"If you want them to remember it, make it memorable" - a really good teacher

 

[icehorse]

The correct perspective is worth 80 IQ points - Alan Kay

 

[icehorse]

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley

 

[Spiderman]

Dont judge a person until you have walked a mile in their shoes.

a person can only be hurt so many times before the sorrow turns to rage.

 

[Deidre]

You can't dip your foot in the same lake twice.

I love this saying. It signifies that you can never have the same experience, twice. Example...you move away from your home town...you have fond memories, and are home sick. You go back a few years later, and the whole town has changed, the people you once knew have moved away...it's an entirely new experience, so whatever you missed...is gone.

 

[Sunstone]

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."

All four quotes from Lord Acton.

 

[Spiderman]

College is not supposed to be an exam factory for the rat race. but for so many it is.
Johan lamont

Thomas Edison failed a thousand times at making the lightbulb.

 

[Deidre]

Updated my status today with this nice one:
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Spiderman]

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
― Gautama Buddha