Quotes galore!
This entry includes some of my favorite quotes. There's a lot of them so for those who are annoyed by scrolling past super-long entries, I put them all under a cut.
"I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with them later."
--Mitch Hedberg
"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."
--Pythagoras
"Our lives teach us who we are."
--Salman Rushdie
"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
--Maya Angelou
"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."
--Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
--Truman Capote
"Eventually all the pieces fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment, and know that everything happens for a reason."
--SATC
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
--Saint Francis de Sales
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
--Sir Winston Churchill
“We all become important when we realize our goal should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole.”
--Kimya Dawson (this was my high school yearbook quote!)
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
--E.E. Cummings
"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey."
--Cynthia Ozick
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
--Descartes
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself."
--Oprah
"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."
--Lao Tzi
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
--Carl Sandburg
"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
---Lee Iacocca
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
--Colette
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
--Scott Adams
"Nothing is sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be is to do"
-- Socrates. "
To do is to be"
--Jean-Paul Sartre.
"Do be do be do"
--Frank Sinatra
"The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday."
--Rant Casey, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. "
--Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let's drink to good times. Comic or tragic, the most important thing to do is to enjoy life while you can because we only go round once, and when it's over, it's over. And, perfect cardiogram or not, when you least expect it, it could end like that."
--Sy, Melinda and Melinda
"Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good."
--White Eagle
"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor."
--Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
--Oscar Wilde
"The way we see the problem is the problem."
--Stephen Covey
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
--Shakespeare
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."
--Betty Friedan
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
--Charles Darwin
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."-Maria Edgeworth
"Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world."- Gordon Atkinson aka Real Life Preacher
"You must [re]learn to listen & speak ... give presence always ...
with your heart".
--elder ortega vaz da piedade
"Creation's not just out there-- it's here inside of ourselves, too.
Each one of us IS a universe. Every molecule, every atom is a
Universe, a World with still other Worlds inside o' that. That's how
Creation IS! It's so big in so many ways you and I can't even dream
of it all."
-- Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon, Voice of the Hawk Elder
"I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth"
--(Isaiah 12:2-6) (I may be Jewish/not invest much in the New Testament, but I think that this quote does a good job of summing up how theology in general is actually way more radical than the right wants us to believe!)
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
--Walt Whitman
"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for."
"For several years, I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived”
"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you."
"I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with them later."
--Mitch Hedberg
"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."
--Pythagoras
"Our lives teach us who we are."
--Salman Rushdie
"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
--Maya Angelou
"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."
--Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
--Truman Capote
"Eventually all the pieces fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment, and know that everything happens for a reason."
--SATC
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
--Saint Francis de Sales
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
--Sir Winston Churchill
“We all become important when we realize our goal should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole.”
--Kimya Dawson (this was my high school yearbook quote!)
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
--E.E. Cummings
"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey."
--Cynthia Ozick
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
--Descartes
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself."
--Oprah
"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."
--Lao Tzi
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
--Carl Sandburg
"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
---Lee Iacocca
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
--Colette
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
--Scott Adams
"Nothing is sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be is to do"
-- Socrates. "
To do is to be"
--Jean-Paul Sartre.
"Do be do be do"
--Frank Sinatra
"The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday."
--Rant Casey, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. "
--Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let's drink to good times. Comic or tragic, the most important thing to do is to enjoy life while you can because we only go round once, and when it's over, it's over. And, perfect cardiogram or not, when you least expect it, it could end like that."
--Sy, Melinda and Melinda
"Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good."
--White Eagle
"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor."
--Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
--Oscar Wilde
"The way we see the problem is the problem."
--Stephen Covey
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
--Shakespeare
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."
--Betty Friedan
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
--Charles Darwin
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."-Maria Edgeworth
"Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world."- Gordon Atkinson aka Real Life Preacher
"You must [re]learn to listen & speak ... give presence always ...
with your heart".
--elder ortega vaz da piedade
"Creation's not just out there-- it's here inside of ourselves, too.
Each one of us IS a universe. Every molecule, every atom is a
Universe, a World with still other Worlds inside o' that. That's how
Creation IS! It's so big in so many ways you and I can't even dream
of it all."
-- Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon, Voice of the Hawk Elder
"I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth"
--(Isaiah 12:2-6) (I may be Jewish/not invest much in the New Testament, but I think that this quote does a good job of summing up how theology in general is actually way more radical than the right wants us to believe!)
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
--Walt Whitman
"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for."
"For several years, I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived”
"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you."