quotables

decides2dream

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~ Danny Kaye


I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~ Diane Ackerman


Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
~ Gertrude Stein


Live all that you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
~ Henry James


May you live all the days of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift

Ayedavanita

"You teach people how to treat you."


My sister said this to me when we were talking about what you will and will not put up with.

decides2dream

Oh, the wild joys of living!
~ Robert Browning


If you ask me what i came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
~ Emile Zola


The tragedy of man is what dies in himself while he still lives.
~ Albert Schweitzer

decides2dream

Sieze the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
~ Horace


Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
~ Christian F. Gellert


At the end, you're posing for eternity. It's your last picture. Don't be carried into death. Leap into it.
~ Anatole Broyard


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
~ Les Brown


Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Sing as if no one can hear you,
And dance like no one's watching.
~ Anonymous

rarghrargh-brownstar

A DELAY IS NOT A DENIAL

-Senrock

decides2dream

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey no one can take for us or spare us.
~ Marcel Proust


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan


We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~ Joseph Campbell


If we trust our intuition and respond, it's always right, because we're open enough to see what to do.
~ Paul Horn


Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
~ Richard Bach

ShoeTheShoeless

from the movie 'Snatch'


"Sugar?"
"No thanks, I'm sweet enough."

rarghrargh-brownstar

oh and people that think they are better than other people. I believe everyone is equal. Treat others equally.......and I believe we'll all meet in heaven some day even the criminals....it's not their fault they had a bad upbringing or a mental illness........
-Garner

This really touched me.

olderman

It ain't over 'til it's over - Yogi Berra

I never had sex with that woman - Bill Clinton

Your President is not a crook - Richard Nixon

And away we go!! - Jackie Gleason

decides2dream

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ William James


The game of life is not so much holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
~ H.T. Leslie


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~ Havelock Ellis

decides2dream

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin


Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
~ John Wooden


Life doesn't require that we do the best - only that we try our best.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

smithnic

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Gloria Steinem

Paris Hilton

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."

smithnic

I publically profess my love for Noam Chomsky!!

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

oi loike da...

'The world is at my hands Bassanio , but as the world a stage where everyone must play a part and mine a sad one' Quote from Antonio in Shakespere's 'The Merchant Of Venice'.


'Speak again Kilty and i'm going to have to SHIFT you' Quote from a mad old priest religion teacher i had last year called Fr.Gough. Can you see the Inuendo?? can you huh? HUH?LOL!!!

smithnic

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

decides2dream

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until you stop trying.
~ Brian Dyson


You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
~ Beverly Sills


The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
~ John McEnroe


Problems are messages.
~ Shakti Gawain


A setback is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~ Henry Ford


Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.
~ Robert J. Donovan


It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

signaltonoise

"An eye for an eye leads to a world of blind men" [Mahatma Ghandi]

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too." [Paulo Coelho]

"Waiting is painful, forgetting is painful...but not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering" [Paulo Coelho]

"The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters" [Paulo Coelho]

decides2dream

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
~ Satchel Page


Fall seven times, stand up eight.
~ Japanese Proverb


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Confucius


A bend in the road is not the end of the road . . . unless you fail to make the turn.
~ Anonymous


I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time i am right.
~ Albert Einstein

PJaddicted

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~John Burroughs

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