Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
-Swedish Proverb
quotes
quotes
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
– Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
– Voltaire (1694-1778)
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
– H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
– Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
– Anais Nin (1903-1977)
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If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
– George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth more than this day.
– Goethe
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
– Harvey Fierstein
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.”
– unknown
If you are going through hell, keep going.
– Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
-Errol Flynn
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
– Galileo Galilei
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
– Oscar Wilde
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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.- Andre Gide
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“Dialogue is wealth.” – Lynn
Isn’t that so true?
people who hitch their cart to a star… or however it goes
You should read this. Lynn is one of my favorite writers of all time and I love this part:
“…if i hadn’t consistently jammed my foot between one particular door and the slam of inevitability, i wouldn’t be here, now, comfortable in this company, catching up, comparing presents and futures, and watching the lights of north-holland slide brightly by.”
I believe in fate and meant-to-be’s and finding your destiny. But I don’t believe it’s EVER easy or that everyone finds theirs. And I think it’s special, certain types of people who can chase their destinies down, jam their foot in the doors and demand their chance.
It’s a great image, isn’t it?
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“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.” King Whitney Jr.
“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill
“Reality is a question of persepective; the further you get from the past, the more plausible and concrete it seems – but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.” – Salmon Rushdie
“Time hasn’t stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any other malfunctions of this world. So please don’t tell me it will stop for you.” – CS Lewis
can i quote you on that?
I’m in the mood for quotes today. Lots of ’em.
This little gem is new to me:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. -Mark Twain
And there you go. When I say I’m leaving, to those who can’t figure out or understand WHY I’d want to be anywhere but here, there’s your answer.
More fun with quotes! …
My trademark quote as of late: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. -Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. -G.K. Chesterton
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. -Mark Twain
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. -William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. -G.K. Chesterton
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -St. Augustine
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. – Margaret Mead
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. -Colette
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. . . -D. H. Lawrence
Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’ -Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
quote this
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” Olin Miller
quotables
Excerpt: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Friedrich Nietzsche