quotables

Ayedavanita

He who is unable to live in society, or has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
~Aristotle

decides2dream

Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
~ Corita Kent


Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
~ Ruth Ann Schabacker

decides2dream

i finally got around to reading the alchemist, by paulo coelho. what a quick and easy read, but so much inspiration packed into such a sweet story. seems most appropriate to post a few beautiful words today...




there is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.


...we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and i give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.


you will never be able to escape from your heart. so it's better to listen to what it has to say.


when i have truly been searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because i've known that every hour was a part of the dream that i would find it.


one is loved because one is loved. no reason is needed for loving.


i don't live in either my past or my future. i'm interested only in the present. if you can concentrate on the present, you'll be a happy man.


when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

swede

you got to live it up, swedey style

- sir swedey the 4th

MyAndrogynousMind

Love is the painful realization that something other than ourselves is real.

-Iris Murdoch

signaltonoise

decides2dream wrote:

i finally got around to reading the alchemist, by paulo coelho. what a quick and easy read, but so much inspiration packed into such a sweet story. seems most appropriate to post a few beautiful words today...




there is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.


...we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and i give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.


you will never be able to escape from your heart. so it's better to listen to what it has to say.


when i have truly been searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because i've known that every hour was a part of the dream that i would find it.


one is loved because one is loved. no reason is needed for loving.


i don't live in either my past or my future. i'm interested only in the present. if you can concentrate on the present, you'll be a happy man.


when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I love that book! it has so many quotable lines actually! I don't have the book close to me though.. i think i posted some before, but i'm not sure..
Coelho is great..

decides2dream

The richest person is the one who is contented with what he has.
~ Robert Savage


Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
~ Suze Orman


Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
~ Henrik Ibsen


He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
~ Elbert Hubbard


No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
~ William Feather

decides2dream

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ Chinese Proverb


Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~ Liz Smith


No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
~ Grace Slick


The beginning is the most important part of the work.
~ Plato


The person who moves mountains begins by carrying away small stones.
~ Chinese Proverb

decides2dream

The important thing is somehow to begin.
~ Henry Moore


If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
~ Laurence C. Peter


Knowing what you want is the first step to getting it.
~ Louise Hart

decides2dream

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
~ Ernest Hemingway


Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you really want.
~ Margaret Young


The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
~ Anonymous

tylervedder

***Hasta la vista baby***

Someone called Arnold

decides2dream

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are going.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

decides2dream

somnium wrote:

Cynicism is much like a good pair of spectacles, what you see is what you get....and not all is spectacular.

~ JMW

nice to see this thread get an occasional bump from someone other than me. hehe.





Just when you think you have given too much...give more.
~ Cree Nations

decides2dream

To change one's life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly.
No exceptions.
~ William James

RM's tsunami

"crause hinds"

~Balki

May his username rest in peace.

decides2dream

for estranged on his birthday:


Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
~ Corita Kent

Abookamongstthemany

"Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to live w/o it."

Abookamongstthemany

"Needing a friend is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there for you once, chances are you won't be needing him again."

casper leblanc

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

Blanche

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
Carl Jung

FinsburyParkCarrots

"It is said that science will dehumanise people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods."


Jacob Bronowski

Anon

Resist much, obey little. - Walt Whitman

decides2dream

Blanche wrote:

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
Carl Jung

i *heart* blanche.



...life is the moment we are living right now.
~ Paulo Coelho

tachepiranha

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reachdown12

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."-Albert Einstein

"The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen."- Roy Moody

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."- Eleanor Roosevelt

Also a favorite of mine, in my sig...

vmfury

True friends stab you in the front. ~ Oscar Wilde

Abookamongstthemany

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you." ~ Charles Manson

Ayedavanita

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Estranged

"Hope is the dream of a soul awake." - French Proverb

Joe

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson