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Memorable & Meaningful Quotes

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Deidre

Well-Known Member
"The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
—Michel de Montaigne

Mequa, you posted this ^^ on my profile...why does it mean this? I think I know why, but thought I'd ask lol
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
 
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lewisnotmiller

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
I've posted this a bunch lately, so apologies in advance if it's old news but it strikes me as consistently relevent;

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
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Deidre

Well-Known Member
I adore Nietzsche, myself.

''In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on a cross.''

Yes, that too is a quote from Nietzsche. He surprises me every day. If a heaven exists, I hope to be able to meet him. (if we are both there, that is. ;))
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
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9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Three of my favourites:

"For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has eyes to see them." - T. H. Huxley

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein

"If at first you don't succeed, there's one data point." - xkcd
 
Debater Slayer

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
"The way I see it, there are two types of people: those who spend their lives trying to build a future, and those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past." -- Max Payne

(FYI: He's a fictional character.)
 
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Deidre

Well-Known Member
9-10ths_Penguin said:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein
Click to expand...

so I can't cook a tasty meal...so sue me :p
 
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fschmidt

Old Testament Reactionary
"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for someone who I am not!"
- Kurt Cobain

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
- Kurt Cobain

"There is no remembrance of those who came before; and of those who will come after there will also be no remembrance by those who follow them."
- Ecclesiastes 1:11

"The more I know about people, the better I like my dog."
- Mark Twain
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
if you agonize a fat person for being fat, you increase the likelihood of them becoming more obese.
 
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Deidre

Well-Known Member
How does one define friendship? I think you just know it when you see it, and you know what it isn't, when you don't see it. ~ me
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
And there are those who will insist on seeing an enemy in those who have the best of intentions. And the prophecy winds up becoming self-fulfilling! If you look for the Devil around every corner you will find him. In places where the devil is absent, you can make him present! -me
 
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Deidre

Well-Known Member
Just do it ~ Nike

Probably one of the best and yet most succinct slogans of all time. So often we hem and haw over what to do, when setting out to take on a new endeavor...but, sometimes...we just gotta do it. And let the chips fall where they may...and figure out a strategy as we go along. :trophy:
 
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