QUOTES THAT I'VE LOVE: [Part One]
THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL QUOTES THAT I LIKE BECAUSE OF THE MEANING BEHIND EACH SAYING: [Quotes will be added as time goes on.]
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00) "The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
~ Socrates
01) "...it's not how you start out that counts. It's what you are at the finish."
~ Dr. Seuss [Theodor Seuss Geisel] wrote to a fan about the tale of Grinch & how he stole Christmas
02) "To be or not to be...(that is the question.)"
~ Shakespeare
03) "At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves."
~ Charles Bukowski
04) "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
~ M.K Gandhi
05) "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
~ Dr. Napoleon Hill
06) "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~ Mark Twain
07) "Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
~ Samuel Johnson
08) "I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short."
~ Blaise Pascal
09) "Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas everyday."
~ Helen Steiner Rice
10) "...You get back what you give out."
~ Nancy Reagan (quote on compassion)
11) "If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
~ Buddhist (quote on compassion)
12) "Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still."
~ Dalai Lama
13) "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
~ Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Action
14) "When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
~ Douglas Noel Adams
15) "A friend in power is a friend lost."
~ Henry Brooks Adams
16) "Friends are born, not made."
~ Henry Brooks Adams
17) "If you don't control your mind, someone else will."
~ John Allston
18) (Funny Quote) "Friendship is like peeing on yourself, everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
~ Anonymous
19) "It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives."
~ Anonymous
20) (Funny Quote) "If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?"
~ Anonymous
21) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
~ Anonymous
22) (Funny Quote) "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Anonymous
23) "He [or She] who laughs last didn't get it."
~ Anonymous
24) (Funny Quote) "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together." -- ["the force" is from Star Wars]
~ Anonymous
25) "Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film."
~ Anonymous
26) "The road to success is always under construction."
~ Anonymous
27) (Funny Quote) "He's so lazy that if there were work in bed, he would rather sleep on the floor."
~ Paddy O'Dea
28) "Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like solitary confinement."
~ Anonymous
28) "Remember: Don't insult the Alligator till after you cross the river."
~ Anonymous
29) "Habit is a form of exercise."
~ Elbert Hubbard
30) "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."
~ Douglas Adams
31) (Fuuny Quote) "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."
~ Anonymous
32) (Funny Quote) "I'm an excellant housekeeper. Everytime I get a divorce, I keep the house."
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
33) (Funny Quote) "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
~ Calvin
34) (Funny Quote) "Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!"
~Homer J. Simpson (from The Simpsons)
35) (Funny Quote) "I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!"
~ Homer J. Simpson (from The Simpsons) [by: Yogi Berra]
36) "A word to the wise ain't necessay - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
~ Bill Cosby
37) "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein
38) "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
~ Walt Disney
39) "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
~ Henry Ford
40) "I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
~ Wayne Gretzky
41) "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ M.K. Gandhi
42) "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
~ Zig Ziglar
43) "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
~ Abraham Lincoln
44) "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
~ Edgar Watson Howe
45) "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
~ Arnold H. Glasgow
46) "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)
47) "If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
~ Abraham Sutzkever
48) "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
~ Victor Hugo
49) "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to substain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
~ Professor Keating (played by: Robin Williams in 'Dead Poet's Society')
50) "Colonel Jessep (played by: Jack Nicholson): "You want answers?"
Kaffee (played by: Tom Cruise): "I want the truth."
Colonel Jessep: "You can't handle the truth." "
~ (From the Film, 'A Few Good Men')
51) "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."
~ Muhammad Ali, American Boxer
52) "Champions keep playing until they get it right."
~ Billie Jean King
53) "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
~ Warren Buffett
54) "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
~ Bob Dylan
55) "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
~ General George S. Patton
56) "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
~ Bill Cosby
57) "A penny saved is a penny earned."
~ Benjamin Franklin
58) "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
~ George S. Patton
59) "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
60) "A leader is a dealer in hope."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
61) "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
62) "Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get."
~ Forrest Gump (played by: Tom Hanks)
63) "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
~Voltaire
64) "A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
~ George Santayana
65) "...ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
~ John F. Kennedy
66) "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
~ Jesse Jackson
67) "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
68) "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
69) "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross
70) "You see things; and you say 'why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'why not?' "
~ George Bernard Shaw
71) "Spread your wings and let them take you wherever they may."
~ Crystal Rose of Pollux [an online fellow writer & friend]
72) "No greather heart have a man than he who lays down his life for his friend?"
~ Crystal Rose of Pollux [an online fellow writer & friend]
{revised version of the quote from 'The Jungle Book' used in [Mansion Mystery (revised version) part VIII]}
< http://rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com/43803.html?view=329243#t329243 >
[ RELAXATION QUOTES:
73) BREATHE - "Smile, breathe, and go slowly."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
74) NOTHING LASTS FOREVER - "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world -- not even our troubles."
~ Charlie Chaplin
75) THE BEAUTY OF SHADE - "To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure (or abundance) is the most perfect refreshment."
~ Jane Austen
76) REST TO GROW - "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
~ Ovid
77) YOUR RESTED SELF - "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
~ Chinese proverb
78) SLOW DOWN - "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."
~ Lily Tomlin
79) LOOK AT YOUR LIFE - "There is more to life than increasing its speed."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
80) NOTHING DOING - "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward."
~ Spanish proverb
81) REFRESH YOUR JUDGMENT - "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement well be surer."
~ Leonardo DaVinci
82) THE COVER OF SLEEP - "Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak."
~ Miguel de Cervantes
...]
83) .....
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UPDATED: [08-21-2009]
~~~~~~~
00) "The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
~ Socrates
01) "...it's not how you start out that counts. It's what you are at the finish."
~ Dr. Seuss [Theodor Seuss Geisel] wrote to a fan about the tale of Grinch & how he stole Christmas
02) "To be or not to be...(that is the question.)"
~ Shakespeare
03) "At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves."
~ Charles Bukowski
04) "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
~ M.K Gandhi
05) "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
~ Dr. Napoleon Hill
06) "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~ Mark Twain
07) "Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
~ Samuel Johnson
08) "I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short."
~ Blaise Pascal
09) "Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas everyday."
~ Helen Steiner Rice
10) "...You get back what you give out."
~ Nancy Reagan (quote on compassion)
11) "If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
~ Buddhist (quote on compassion)
12) "Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still."
~ Dalai Lama
13) "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
~ Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Action
14) "When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
~ Douglas Noel Adams
15) "A friend in power is a friend lost."
~ Henry Brooks Adams
16) "Friends are born, not made."
~ Henry Brooks Adams
17) "If you don't control your mind, someone else will."
~ John Allston
18) (Funny Quote) "Friendship is like peeing on yourself, everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
~ Anonymous
19) "It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives."
~ Anonymous
20) (Funny Quote) "If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?"
~ Anonymous
21) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
~ Anonymous
22) (Funny Quote) "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
~ Anonymous
23) "He [or She] who laughs last didn't get it."
~ Anonymous
24) (Funny Quote) "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together." -- ["the force" is from Star Wars]
~ Anonymous
25) "Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film."
~ Anonymous
26) "The road to success is always under construction."
~ Anonymous
27) (Funny Quote) "He's so lazy that if there were work in bed, he would rather sleep on the floor."
~ Paddy O'Dea
28) "Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like solitary confinement."
~ Anonymous
28) "Remember: Don't insult the Alligator till after you cross the river."
~ Anonymous
29) "Habit is a form of exercise."
~ Elbert Hubbard
30) "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."
~ Douglas Adams
31) (Fuuny Quote) "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."
~ Anonymous
32) (Funny Quote) "I'm an excellant housekeeper. Everytime I get a divorce, I keep the house."
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
33) (Funny Quote) "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
~ Calvin
34) (Funny Quote) "Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!"
~Homer J. Simpson (from The Simpsons)
35) (Funny Quote) "I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!"
~ Homer J. Simpson (from The Simpsons) [by: Yogi Berra]
36) "A word to the wise ain't necessay - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
~ Bill Cosby
37) "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein
38) "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
~ Walt Disney
39) "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
~ Henry Ford
40) "I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
~ Wayne Gretzky
41) "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
~ M.K. Gandhi
42) "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
~ Zig Ziglar
43) "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
~ Abraham Lincoln
44) "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
~ Edgar Watson Howe
45) "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
~ Arnold H. Glasgow
46) "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)
47) "If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
~ Abraham Sutzkever
48) "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
~ Victor Hugo
49) "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to substain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
~ Professor Keating (played by: Robin Williams in 'Dead Poet's Society')
50) "Colonel Jessep (played by: Jack Nicholson): "You want answers?"
Kaffee (played by: Tom Cruise): "I want the truth."
Colonel Jessep: "You can't handle the truth." "
~ (From the Film, 'A Few Good Men')
51) "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."
~ Muhammad Ali, American Boxer
52) "Champions keep playing until they get it right."
~ Billie Jean King
53) "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
~ Warren Buffett
54) "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
~ Bob Dylan
55) "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
~ General George S. Patton
56) "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
~ Bill Cosby
57) "A penny saved is a penny earned."
~ Benjamin Franklin
58) "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
~ George S. Patton
59) "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
60) "A leader is a dealer in hope."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
61) "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
62) "Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get."
~ Forrest Gump (played by: Tom Hanks)
63) "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
~Voltaire
64) "A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
~ George Santayana
65) "...ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
~ John F. Kennedy
66) "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
~ Jesse Jackson
67) "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
68) "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
69) "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross
70) "You see things; and you say 'why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'why not?' "
~ George Bernard Shaw
71) "Spread your wings and let them take you wherever they may."
~ Crystal Rose of Pollux [an online fellow writer & friend]
72) "No greather heart have a man than he who lays down his life for his friend?"
~ Crystal Rose of Pollux [an online fellow writer & friend]
{revised version of the quote from 'The Jungle Book' used in [Mansion Mystery (revised version) part VIII]}
< http://rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com/43803.html?view=329243#t329243 >
[ RELAXATION QUOTES:
73) BREATHE - "Smile, breathe, and go slowly."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
74) NOTHING LASTS FOREVER - "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world -- not even our troubles."
~ Charlie Chaplin
75) THE BEAUTY OF SHADE - "To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure (or abundance) is the most perfect refreshment."
~ Jane Austen
76) REST TO GROW - "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
~ Ovid
77) YOUR RESTED SELF - "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
~ Chinese proverb
78) SLOW DOWN - "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."
~ Lily Tomlin
79) LOOK AT YOUR LIFE - "There is more to life than increasing its speed."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
80) NOTHING DOING - "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward."
~ Spanish proverb
81) REFRESH YOUR JUDGMENT - "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement well be surer."
~ Leonardo DaVinci
82) THE COVER OF SLEEP - "Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak."
~ Miguel de Cervantes
...]
83) .....
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UPDATED: [08-21-2009]