Favorite Quotes

[DownInaHole]

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
― Albert Einstein

 

[DownInaHole]

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
― Albert Einstein

 

[DownInaHole]

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
― John Lennon

 

[Armadillo]

"We are the species that knows too much to content ourselves with merely
surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We want there to be more to it than
that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: consciousness has forced us into the
paradoxical position of uselessly striving to be something other than what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on crumbling bones."

Thomas Ligotti

 

[DownInaHole]

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."
― C. JoyBell C.

 

[DownInaHole]

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 

[DownInaHole]

"If you work on your gifts they will make room for you." - Jim Rohn

 

[DownInaHole]

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
― St. Francis of Assisi

 

[DownInaHole]

"Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and to be motivated.
I read to understand things I've never
been exposed to.
I read when I'm crabby, when I've just
said monumentally dumb things to the
people I love.
I read for strength to help me when I
feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I read when I'm angry at the whole
world.
I read when everything is going right.
I read to find hope.
I read because I'm made up not just of
skin and bones, of sights, feelings,
and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm
also made up of words.
Words describe my thoughts and what's
hidden in my heart.
Words are alive--when I've found a
story that I love, I read it again and
again, like playing a favorite song
over and over.
Reading isn't passive--I enter the
story with the characters, breathe
their air, feel their frustrations,
scream at them to stop when they're
about to do something stupid, cry with
them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a
friend.
A book is a friend.
You can never have too many."
— Gary Paulsen (Shelf Life: Stories by the Book)

 

[DownInaHole]

"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

 

[DownInaHole]

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

[Armadillo]

"There's no reason why you shouldn't be the first to sleep with things that can't be slept with."

InspiroBot

 

[Chlo]

"The less I needed, the better I felt." — Charles Bukowski

 

[Mud.]

"I put my heart and soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process."

-Vincent van Gogh.
From a letter to his brother Theo.

 

[Mud.]

...

-Greta Garbo.

 

[Random]

Your on Earth, there's no cure for that. We're all born mad, so remain so.
Samuel Beckett

 

[brighter]

her head hits the pillow
the eternal silence has begun
the life of an innocent girl has now been taken
the pain was unbearable
her dream has now been fulfilled
may she rest in peace

 

[Weeping Garbage Can]

"Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outcasting death. We all want to be remembered.

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, 'They'll remember me now', but a) they don't remember you, and b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our death.

Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to harm it, and we're not likely to do either.

People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox"

-The Fault In Our Stars, John Green

 

[JustAboutDone]

"...this is now, for reasons that are completely unconnected to any of the above, my goodbye thread. The Tagamet has given me a warm glowing feeling, the SN tastes great with a twist of lemon, and these pearly gates are absolutely splendid this time of year. I heartily recommend. Please feed the fish and don't tell anyone my corpse was aquamarine in colour and l chewed my tongue off in the throes of acute agony. Peace to you all."

@Chinaski

 

[Watson]

There are multiple variations of this quote, but I like Frank Herbert's the best:

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast our nets."​

But I also like my sad version....

"If wishes were Watson, I'd have so many of you..."

(...but none of my wishes came true and now I don't have even one of you....)​

 

[Wallflower]

"Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that didn't even exist in the first place." (Jayson Engay)

 

[Redt2go]

If you're happy and you know it, then the meds are obviously working... ss's own Mr. Fox

 

[AhG]

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[Damn]

'' if hevan was a mile away, would I pack up my bags and leave this world behind, or save it all for you? '' - nas

'' Winston your drunk! ''
'' yes mam and you are ugly, but in the morning I will be sobur'' - Winston Churchill

''let them hate so long as they fear'' - atticus

''power currupts and absolute power currupts absolutely'' - Lord acton

''our greatest glory is not in never failing, but rising every time we fail'' - confucius

' 'beware the baroness of a busy life' ' - socrates

 

[406metallicblue]

Be the change you want to see. Ghandi

"I put my heart and soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process."

-Vincent van Gogh.
From a letter to his brother Theo.

Classic stuff, thanks for reminding me of this one. I don't paint but i see that he means perhaps, dedication your soul to something that proves meaningless, that you accomplish but is finished and the life's work with it. nice work.

 

[Roberto]

Good reasons seem to be well distributed, we all think we have many.

 

[Kikoo Loool]

"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse"
The Godfather

 

[Alecsa]

From The Little Prince.

 

[Just4ride]

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Moore

 

[LastFlowers]

"To die would be a great adventure"

Peter Pan from the movie "Hook"

If only.