Sharing My Collection of Quotes With You
April 13, 2012 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2012 at 3:04 pm by Handprint.)
"Have the courage to live, anyone can die."
- Robert Cody
" Nobody procrastinates their way to the top"
-Nextel Buisness Card
" Finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we have the nerve to look, we can see in any face our own vulnerability."
- Dean Koontz
"Love all, trust few, do harm to no one"
- William Shakespeare
" Is the most important thing about Julius Caesar, about Peter the Great, about you dear reader, the way in which we do not differ from other people?"
-Dostoyevsky
"Silence is my shield; it crushes./ Silence is my cloak; it smothers./ Silence is my sword; it cuts all ways."
- line from a movie
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Anyone who tries to imprison friendship or love, will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank."
-The Witch of Portobello, Page: 196
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
-Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
"There's always a way forward, but there's no way back."
- Dean Koontz (The Darkest Evening of the Year, Page: 56)
"A good will isn't good because of what it effects or accomplishes, it's good in itself. Even if by the upmost effort the good will accomplishes nothing, it would still shine like a jewel for its own sake as something which has its full value in itself."
- Immanuel Kant
"When people talk, listen. Most people never listen."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."
-Elie Wiesel
"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
-Elie Wiesel
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
- Pearl S. Buck
"Keep Walking...Keep Advancing..."
- Saint Augustine
"Be led by your dreams."
- Anonymous
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are.”
-Anonymous
"Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could've been any different."
-Oprah
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
-Gandhi
"Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. "
-George Washington Carver
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."
~J.C. Watts
"Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been."
-John Mayer
"I have learned toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
--Khalil Gibran
"To thine own self be true."
- Polonius
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends. "
- J.R.R. Tolkein
"And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss."
-Dorothy Parker, from Incurable
“Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.”
- Dave Attell
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I wish you were here
I wish you’d never left
But mostly I wish you well
I wish you my very very best."
-Andrea Gibson
"The hardest thing about having nothing,
is having nothing to give."
- Andrea Gibson
"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.”
-T.S. Eliot
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
-Mother Teresa
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
-Paulo Coelh
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”
"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk
"The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live."
-Norman Cousins
"Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable."
- Dean Koontz
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
"If our motivation for serving others is tied to a strong desire for specific outcomes or for praise, our potential is limited. Because we can never completely control the results of our efforts, we may become easily frustrated and disheartened."
-John Makransky
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. "
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog.
People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden."
- Chuck Palahniuk
"I remember/ Late nights when I stayed up late/ all I'd do is wait and wait/ You're never coming home to me..."
-The American Rejects
"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
- Elie Wiesel
- Robert Cody
" Nobody procrastinates their way to the top"
-Nextel Buisness Card
" Finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we have the nerve to look, we can see in any face our own vulnerability."
- Dean Koontz
"Love all, trust few, do harm to no one"
- William Shakespeare
" Is the most important thing about Julius Caesar, about Peter the Great, about you dear reader, the way in which we do not differ from other people?"
-Dostoyevsky
"Silence is my shield; it crushes./ Silence is my cloak; it smothers./ Silence is my sword; it cuts all ways."
- line from a movie
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Anyone who tries to imprison friendship or love, will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank."
-The Witch of Portobello, Page: 196
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
-Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
"There's always a way forward, but there's no way back."
- Dean Koontz (The Darkest Evening of the Year, Page: 56)
"A good will isn't good because of what it effects or accomplishes, it's good in itself. Even if by the upmost effort the good will accomplishes nothing, it would still shine like a jewel for its own sake as something which has its full value in itself."
- Immanuel Kant
"When people talk, listen. Most people never listen."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life."
-Elie Wiesel
"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
-Elie Wiesel
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
- Pearl S. Buck
"Keep Walking...Keep Advancing..."
- Saint Augustine
"Be led by your dreams."
- Anonymous
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are.”
-Anonymous
"Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could've been any different."
-Oprah
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
-Gandhi
"Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. "
-George Washington Carver
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."
~J.C. Watts
"Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been."
-John Mayer
"I have learned toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
--Khalil Gibran
"To thine own self be true."
- Polonius
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the wise cannot see all ends. "
- J.R.R. Tolkein
"And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss."
-Dorothy Parker, from Incurable
“Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.”
- Dave Attell
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I wish you were here
I wish you’d never left
But mostly I wish you well
I wish you my very very best."
-Andrea Gibson
"The hardest thing about having nothing,
is having nothing to give."
- Andrea Gibson
"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.”
-T.S. Eliot
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
-Mother Teresa
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
-Paulo Coelh
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”
"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk
"The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live."
-Norman Cousins
"Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable."
- Dean Koontz
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
"If our motivation for serving others is tied to a strong desire for specific outcomes or for praise, our potential is limited. Because we can never completely control the results of our efforts, we may become easily frustrated and disheartened."
-John Makransky
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. "
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog.
People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden."
- Chuck Palahniuk
"I remember/ Late nights when I stayed up late/ all I'd do is wait and wait/ You're never coming home to me..."
-The American Rejects
"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
- Elie Wiesel
