I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
ME likes
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Honestly face defeat; never fake success.
Exploit the failure; don't waste it.
Learn all you can from it.
Never use failure as an excuse for not trying again.
~ Charles Kettering
Do not take life too seriously;
you will never get out alive.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The less you laugh, the less you live.
~ Tote Yamada
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
~ W. Lee Grant
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
~ Agnes Repplier
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.
~ Mary Tricky
We don't stop laughing because we grow old - we grow old because we stop laughing.
~ Michael Pritchard
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is rich, simply throbbing with treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~ Henry Miller
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
~ George Eliot
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Your mind must remain open at all times. If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.
~ Heraclitus
dreamn,,, where the heck do your quotes come from?
you must be sick of quotes by now!
errrrrr.....from books? :rolleyes:
my dear youngster...you should know well enough by now, i LOVE words.....and a well-turned phrase is heaven to me. i shall NEVER tire of well-written words. as i posted above - i just got 2 new quote books - so no sickness yet.
“You all laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at you because you’re all the same.” - John Davis
"People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity; that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence, and crudity." - Hugo Demartini
"It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich
"You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss." - Daniel Heinsius
Comments
you are not a failure unless you fail to try
-?
THAT is brilliant - and sooo true.
~ Shakespeare
~ Ice Queen
I love this thread
some of these make u :eek: wake up......
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
ME likes
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
~ Charles M. Schultz
Honestly face defeat; never fake success.
Exploit the failure; don't waste it.
Learn all you can from it.
Never use failure as an excuse for not trying again.
~ Charles Kettering
Do not take life too seriously;
you will never get out alive.
~ Elbert Hubbard
~ William Shakespeare
There is always time for gratitude and new beginnings.
~ J. Robert Moskin
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.
~Lord Byron
~ Tote Yamada
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
~ W. Lee Grant
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
~ Agnes Repplier
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.
~ Mary Tricky
We don't stop laughing because we grow old - we grow old because we stop laughing.
~ Michael Pritchard
~ Allan K. Chalmers
The time that gets wasted is the time you don't spend in each moment, experiencing and appreciating it for what it is.
~ Barbara de Angelis
Life is a series of moments. Each moment should be welcomed and relinquished with joy.
~ Deepak Chopra
those are great dreamn
**listen more**
I need to do this more often lol.....get less excited when someone's talking :P
~ Storm Jameson
The point is to live everything.
~ Steven Potter
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
~ Sigmund Freud
~ Ice Queen
nice quote!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life needs to be lived in a constant state of discovery.
~ Kobi Yamada
We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~ Claude Bernard
~ Jules Renard
Between the wish and the thing, life lies waiting.
~ Unknown
Love is the way it is.
~ Thaddeus Golas
Say something postive about Boom Thread :
he looks like a koala bear on steroids
this is a compliment
as koalas are cute
and steroids is strong.
-Rarghy
~ Henry Miller
~ George Eliot
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Your mind must remain open at all times. If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.
~ Heraclitus
"the more prohibitons you have
the less virtuous people will be
Try and make people moral
And you lay the groundwork for vice"-Lao-tzu
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
-Jimi Hendrix
One-who-waits from Northern Exposure
oooooohhhh....a new quotables poster!!! yay - do come back.
btw - got back from the bookstore tonight, and among other purchases....picked up 2 new books of quotes. hahaha. do look out now.
I got a book, about pot......................and it's got a few quotes in it, as the ones you see above.........so more to come from that as well.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
-Jimi Hendrix
~ Marcel Proust
Choose to be happy. It is a way of being wise.
~ Colette
Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.
~ David Stern
you must be sick of quotes by now!
errrrrr.....from books? :rolleyes:
my dear youngster...you should know well enough by now, i LOVE words.....and a well-turned phrase is heaven to me. i shall NEVER tire of well-written words. as i posted above - i just got 2 new quote books - so no sickness yet.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Confucious
Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it.
~ Anonymous
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
~ Og Mandino
"People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity; that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence, and crudity." - Hugo Demartini
"It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.
~ William James