quotables

decides2dream · March 2005

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.
~ Nancy Thayer

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
~ George Baker

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
~ Bruce Barton

rarghrargh-brownstar · March 2005

Together we will get through this thing called life
-Pjaddicted

(close to that ^ sorry tab went down before i could remember)

that is simply the best kind of *small* to feel.....not small-minded, not insignificant.....but a life worth living and a part of the greater life that exists all around us. i love that feeling...it is as close to true peace that i ever feel deep inside. that, and when i am lying in bed with arms wrapped around me. beautiful simplicity, and a sense of self and yet connectedness...
-Decides2dream

~~2 lovely ladies

signaltonoise · March 2005

The one who reads, lives several times -- Józef Czechowicz

decides2dream · March 2005

wise words from a dear friend..........

yeah, everyone is everything. I'm up and down.....a little bitter, yet still wanting more of that right person.
~ sennin

sennin · March 2005

No human thing is of serious importance.
-Plato

decides2dream · March 2005

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among the flowers.
~ Helen Keller

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Some misfortunes we bring upon ourselves; others are completely beyond our control. But no matter what happens to us, we always have some control over what we do about it.
~ Suzy Szasz

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, purely, till the sun goes down and that is all that life really means.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

swede · March 2005

"time, time is magical, oh how bliss it can be"

- the gratious sir swedeaus swantaire

decides2dream · March 2005

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

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
~ William Frederick Halsey Jr.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinately rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
~ Isak Dinesen

Obi Once · March 2005

be the master and designer of yourself
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (my translation)

signaltonoise · March 2005

"A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter."
(Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur) -- Cicero

"Good health is worth more than the greatest wealth."

"Ab alio exspectes alteri quod feceris" -- Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

decides2dream · March 2005

Obi Once wrote:

be the master and designer of yourself
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (my translation)

obi!!! so nice to see you visit us again - you've been missed.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
~ The Buddha

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms to those who work with joy.
~ Kahlil Gibran

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

decides2dream · April 2005

We become what we do.
~ Chiang Kai-Shek

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
~ Peter Marshall

signaltonoise · April 2005

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
- John Paul II

decides2dream · April 2005

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
~ Henry Miller

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
~ Woody Allen

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller

veddie · April 2005

"My head hurts and my neck hurts that 2 owies"...Ralph Wiggim

decides2dream · April 2005

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
~ Duffy Daugherty

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
~ Fred Shiro

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
~ Henry C. Link

decides2dream · April 2005

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Don't aim for successif you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
~ David Frost

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
~ Abraham Maslow

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

decides2dream · April 2005

I also think that the greater the force of your altruistic attitude towards sentient beings, the more courageous you become. The greater your courage, the less you feel prone to discouragement and loss of hope. Therefore, compassion is also a source of inner strength.
~ The Dalai Lama

decides2dream · April 2005

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
~ Franz Kafka

Why sould we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
~ Oliver Goldsmith

Lizard · April 2005

If you hate something, don't you do it too.

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