quotables

illegal pants

seagoat2 wrote:

"Reality is the only obstacle to happiness"......hee, hee...

ha

cornnifer

uhhh... huh, huh, ... cool.

--Butthead

Grunge Grrrl

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
---Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
---Getrude Stein

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
---HL Mencken

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

---HL Mencken

And...my personal favorite:



After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
---HL Mencken

decides2dream

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
~ Dorothy Thompson


Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is a promise; fulfill it.
~ Mother Theresa


The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright


Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
~ Sarah Bernhardt

decides2dream

There was never an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
~ Mark Twain


To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~ Emily Dickinson


Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Jeanwah

"Faith is what comman sense tells you not to believe" - I've forgotten, but it's a favorite of mine.

"The best things in life aren't things" - anonymous

PearlJamaholic

ill have to read through all this at some point. but here are a few quotes i doubt were posted that i like. all are from H.P. Lovecraft

Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had
thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of
childhood and innocence.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is
expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared
with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the
universe, than to weep for him within.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse
than to feel.

He enjoys life -- as do all who are spared the curse of intelligence.

I have no opinions -- I believe in nothing -- but assume for the time
whatever opinion amuses me or is opposite to that of the person or
persons present.

Nothing really matters, and the only thing for a person to do is to take
the artificial and traditional values he finds around him and pretend
they are real; in order to retain that illusion of significance in life
which gives to human events their apparent motivation and semblance of
interest.

The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter.

ok thats all for now.

decides2dream

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~ Leo Buscaglia


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


I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~ Agatha Christie

Earthgirl

If you judge people, you don't have enough time to love them.

Mother Theresa

decides2dream

Live as if you were to die tomorrow . . . .
Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi


To enjoy life more fully you must keep reminding yourself that life is too short for unhappiness.
~ Sol Gordon and Harold Brecher


Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences."
~ Anonymous


It matters not how long we live, but how.
~ Philip James Bailey


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

Earthgirl wrote:

If you judge people, you don't have enough time to love them.

Mother Theresa

THAT is a truly GREAT quote.....wise words.
thanks for posting it.

Ahnimus

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."
- Margaret Mead

crittables

once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with you eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Da Vinci

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
John Steinbeck

decides2dream

There is no cure for birth or death, save to enjoy the interval.
~ George Santayana


We are not born to survive. Only to live.
~ W.S. Merwin


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln


You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about it's width and depth.
~ H.L. Menken


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

vmfury

This is a bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.

decides2dream

vmfury wrote:

This is a bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain


Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
~ Seneca


When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
~ Cherokee saying

chiquimonkey

darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- martin luther king jr.

Ahnimus

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill

decides2dream

Life is to enjoyed, not just endured.
~ Gordon B. Hinkley


The greatest act of revolution in contemporary life, is to come to every day with joy.
~ Carl Hammerschlag


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

vmfury

Out with the old and in with the new. Next!

smarchee

History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true - Tolstoy