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Sunday 16 July 2006
Things That Make You Feel Better
Do you run across snippets of quotes and other bits that bring you comfort? Today, I saw the following quote from Disraeli:
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
As an emotional person who expresses herself almost unabashedly, it makes me feel better about myself to realize how true this quote is. Feeling and emotion are our individual truths, even if those truths might quickly change as we work through our feelings toward better understanding.
Do you have a favorite phrase or quote that you keep close?
Filed under: society
Posted by: Molly | 6:43 am |
July 16th, 2006 at 7:25 am
“If I didn’t believe that the universe was totally meaningless, I’d go crazy.” — John DeChancie
July 16th, 2006 at 8:11 am
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage, Anaïs Nin
July 16th, 2006 at 8:21 am
“In the end, everything is a gag.”
- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
July 16th, 2006 at 8:23 am
“When you wake up, the world will be a different place.”
Not actually a feelgood line, but more of a reminder that the world constantly changes, sometimes for the better. It’s in front of my computer monitor all the time, written on a piece of paper
July 16th, 2006 at 8:30 am
“This too shall pass.”
July 16th, 2006 at 9:18 am
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
John Churton Collins
July 16th, 2006 at 10:02 am
I have so many quotes I love.. Because they all help me to get through in their own way.
Hard to pick just one.
Finally picked this one:
“Succes is the result of good judgement, good judgement is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgement.”
Don’t remember who said it first, but I love it when I feel like I made huge mistake. It reminds me that it’s nothing to worry about if you make mistakes, it makes you stronger in the end. Even when I broke up with my girl which really hurt this one helped me to get through…
Hm, maybe I should write a log on some of my favourite quotes myself sometime. Well, as soon as my (new) personal website is up that is.
Thank you for the idea Molly!
July 16th, 2006 at 10:15 am
“Keep a straight face and you’re laughing” - A drunk in a bar.
July 16th, 2006 at 10:49 am
The greatest inhibitors to human achivement are feelings of helplessness and unworthiness.
July 16th, 2006 at 11:30 am
“Stop worrying where you’re going - Move on.
If you can know where you’re going. You’ve gone.
Just keep moving on
I chose, and my world was shaken - So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not
You have to move on”
- Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George
July 16th, 2006 at 11:51 am
“If all else fails, fuck it.” - John Oxton.
(But I may have mis-quoted him…)
July 16th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
[…] I added a favourite quote of mine to the comments of Molly’s blog post on favourite quotes and phrases. The lines I added are from my favourite musical, Sunday in the Park with George. It is a Sondheim musical - currently back in the West End - which was my inspiration to go and study music theatre at college over a decade ago. […]
July 16th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” - Benjamin Franklin
July 16th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
“Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.” -Yoda
July 16th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
As a Parrothead, there are a number of quotes from Jimmy Buffett that I like. One of my favorites is “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.” It’s just a simple reminder to me to be a participant in life, not an observer.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
“If the horse hadn’t stopped to shit, it might have won the race.”
No idea who originally said this, but I find it a very useful reminder that you can never tell what could have been if you had done things differently, and that it doesn’t help anyone to dwell on it.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
“We apologize for the inconvenience.” — God’s final message to his creation (from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
“Go stick your head in a pig” — The alternate version, as read in the local language of the planet where the message is found now that the original letters have half-sunk into the ground.
(Which is to say, the universe is fundamentally flawed, and totally absurd at its core. Just enjoy the ride.)
July 16th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
The way does not belong to things seen: nor to things unseen. It does not belong to things known: nor to things unknown. Do not seek it, study it, or name it. To find yourself on it, open yourself wide as the sky.
–zen master Nansen
July 16th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
I’ll go for two:
“Too many times we confuse motion with progress” - Einstein (but I use it quite often in my work as well, which is all about pixels and nothing about atoms).
“If you think that you are too small to make a difference then you have never tried to sleep with a mosquito in the same room.” - Chinese proverb
July 16th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
My current favourite is from Albert Hofman, the guy who discovered LSD. However I don’t enjoy this quote because of its psychedelic connotations so much. It appeals to me as a reminder that nothing is constant or immutable, and how things “are” actually comes from within.
“Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”
July 16th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
“Screw you guys, I’m going home” - Eric Cartman, Southpark
July 16th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
My father taught me two at a young age:
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity” - Hanlon’s Razor (remember this everytime someone is being a jerk, and realize they may not be mean, just stupid.)
“Illegitimi non carborundum” which of course is not Latin for “don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
The guy who helped us get our first mortgage had a sign on his wall which read: “The Key to Life is How Well You Deal with Plan B”
But the number 1 all time best quote that I carry with me all the time and share with people as often as possible comes from a sign which hung over the Xerox machine at the first church where I worked. It read:
“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”
Print these out and post them over wherever you read email, web forums, or talk to people on the phone. It’ll make a big difference.
July 16th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
“if you suffer, at least you live,”
Balzac.
I’ve always interepreted this to imply that suffering is relative and there are always those worse off than yourself, a gentle reminder for when I feel the whole world is agaist me. Another one I quite like is an arab proverb,
“trust in allah, but tether your camel first!”
July 16th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind…”
–John Donne
I read that as a child and it really struck a chord with me. It always reminds me of how important it is to take an active role in society.
July 16th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
“In a logical world, men would ride sidesaddle.”
Linda Ellerbee
It helps me try to accept things that just don’t make any sense.
July 17th, 2006 at 12:23 am
I have sooo many; they help me start my day, a thought to carry me out the door and into the fray once again. So, this weeks favs are…
“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” - Mark Twain
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama
A house does not rest upon the ground…but upon a women.
Mexican proverb.
“Between two evils,
always choose the one you haven’t tried before.”
It is promising to be a good week.
July 17th, 2006 at 12:43 am
“Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never escape it alive anyway”
~ Elbert Hubbard
July 17th, 2006 at 2:29 am
Two quotes from The Shawshank Redemption:
“Get busy living, or get busy dying” - Andy Dufresne
“Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free” - Tagline on movie posters
July 17th, 2006 at 3:03 am
I can’t remember who its by, but I LOVE and LIVE by this:
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.”
July 17th, 2006 at 5:25 am
“life is like a child’s shirt : dirty and way too short” - Herman Van Veen, dutch comic
“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” - Duke Ellington
July 17th, 2006 at 6:53 am
“You’ve got to be willing to die for something or you live for .u…n. nothing”, Biohazard (NYHC band)
July 17th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Remembered another one… Most people have been taught “Well the worst thing ‘they’ can say is ‘no’”
My mother spun it another way: “If you don’t ask, the answer is ‘no’” meaning that if you are afraid to ask for something (help, money, a date, whatever) because someone might say no, well you aren’t any worse off if they DO say no than if you never asked… so ask!
July 17th, 2006 at 7:05 am
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
–Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the U.S. 1901-1909
July 17th, 2006 at 7:28 am
In a profession where the site I spent ages building only a few years ago is now embarrassingly out of date, I’ve come to enjoy this quote:
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
“There is another which states that this has already happened.”
- Douglas Adams, from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
July 17th, 2006 at 7:47 am
2 fav photo quotes:
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
–Imogene Cunningham
“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.”
– Ansel Adams
July 17th, 2006 at 8:06 am
I have 100 of them (that I’ve recorded).
http://www.43things.com/people/progress/AfroNinja/1112870
Some of my favorites (hard to choose!) are…
“You can cage the singer but not the song.” -Harry Belafonte
“If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint . . . and that voice will be silenced.” -Vincent Van Gogh
“This is the true joy of life: being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett
“Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.” -Salvador Dali
“The world can only really be changed one piece at a time. The art is picking that piece.” -Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web.
July 17th, 2006 at 8:08 am
-Goethe
July 17th, 2006 at 8:12 am
“Higher than the highest human thought can attain is God’s ideal for His children”
-E. G. White
July 17th, 2006 at 8:47 am
“Solus in faecibus sed profundum variat” - schoolboy cod Latin phrase. No doubt the Romans would have thought it at some point, but I don’t think ever commited it to the written page.
It means, “We’re always in the *poo* it’s only the depth that varies”. Although nominally a pessimistic turn of phrase, the implied humour suggests otherwise :0)
July 17th, 2006 at 9:51 am
“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right”
-Robert Hunter
July 17th, 2006 at 10:21 am
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. –Upton Sinclair
July 17th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
“The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” –some quantum physicist
July 17th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
One classic:
“Simplify, Simplify, Simplify”–Thoreau
“It’s too bad that she won’t live, but then again…who does?”–Gaff from “Blade Runner”
First one for working with CSS, second one after working with CSS!
July 17th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
“spoooon” - The Tick
July 17th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Don’t sweat the petty things, don’t pet the sweaty things.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:12 am
Surely, always pet the sweaty things, Kelly?
July 18th, 2006 at 3:54 am
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible” Frank Zappa
“When you do what you always did, you will get what you always got” Albert Einstein
July 18th, 2006 at 10:50 am
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” - Steven Wright, US comedian and actor (1955 - )
Not the deepest quote in the book, but it reminds me that when I feel like I’ve failed, all I have to do is walk a little further.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
“Simplify, and add lightness,” Colin Chapman.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.”
-Earl Nightingale
July 18th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
-Earl Nightingale
July 18th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
” Don’t believe everything you think.”- a bumpersticker in Santa Fe
“It isn’t the rebels who cause the troubles of the world. Its the troubles that cause the rebels.” Carl Oglesby
July 19th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Benjamin Disraeli! Does this have anything to do with a potential move to the UK?
July 20th, 2006 at 5:30 am
“Time spent wishing, is time wasted”
July 20th, 2006 at 9:51 am
“Two men looked through prison bars,
one saw mud, the other stars”
-Oscar WIlde
July 21st, 2006 at 11:21 pm
“be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind do not matter and those who matter do not mind.”
July 25th, 2006 at 12:39 am
‘I love you’
——Tina(who has a boyfriend she doesn’t love, but has fallen in love with another boy)
saying to the boy she loves.
afterwards, she apologize to both her boyfriend and the boy she loves.
god!she apologized twice!
August 6th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.
Alfred Adler
August 9th, 2006 at 7:01 am
From my favourite Taoist/Daoist/Hippy dude,
William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence”:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
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August 17th, 2006 at 11:58 am
“Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.” - Tim Burton
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:06 am
‘There’s the magic of risking everything for a dream nobody sees but you.’-million dollar baby
October 3rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and the best you have to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
October 20th, 2006 at 6:19 am
“Can heaven be so envious”- Romeo & Juilet
October 29th, 2006 at 6:34 am
” There is no such thing as late; destiny comes on its own time.”
-Tess, from ‘Touched by an Angel’
October 30th, 2006 at 5:22 am
be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:17 pm
“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” -Pablo Picasso
This reminds me that I could “become” anything (with enough time and effort, of course), but following my own course is the only path that will lead me to becoming “me”.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:27 am
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
November 10th, 2006 at 9:15 am
“Shoot for the moon, for if you miss you shall fall amongst the stars”
November 17th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
The third is to be kind.”
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
November 18th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
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November 18th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
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December 3rd, 2006 at 7:58 am
“KNOWLEDGE IS A TRICK THING” joey
great
December 15th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
well this is actually a law of motion but its helps me to remeber that someone can only hurt me with words if i let them: “when an object is in motion it will remain in motion untill acted upon by an outside force, and when an object is at rest it will remian at rest untill acted upon by an out side force.”
December 21st, 2006 at 1:28 am
Now, read this…
Something that always helps me navigate through the madness which is this world, and the recesses of my own head…
this really helps if you’re a worrier like I am…
Think of your problem. Ask yourself, “Right now, how does this benefit me? How does this make me feel?”. And, instantly, you can distinguish the thought as either something that’s going to help you grow or destroy you. If it is something that destroys you or others, make it your goal to STOP thinking about it.
Not a quote, sorry, but a very useful tip.
December 27th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
thanks jessica…… that helped alot….
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
The courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference……..
–serenity prayer
January 4th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Sorrow looks behind. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
(L)aughing (A)t (Y)ouself, (L)aughing (W)ith (O)thers (A)nd (L)aughing (S)o (H)ard (Y)ou (F)ind (I)t (H)ard (T)o (B)reathe (L)o(L)
January 12th, 2007 at 5:04 am
If only for a moment, stop.
January 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I hate school when some one makes a roomer and then your best friend in the world hates you just because this girl tells a lie. And the worse part is not just does she hate me her family hates you to.
January 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
‘Being happy doesnt mean that everything is perfect.
It means that youv finally managed to see past the imperfections’
‘only your real friends will tell you that you have dirt on your face’
SO TRUE
hah
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
You’ve got to keep your chickens on a string.
OR
A samuri warrior should never be ashamed of his sexuality.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
“Come to the edge.”
“I can’t. I afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“I can’t. I will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And I went.
And he pushed me.
And I flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918
French Poet, Philosopher
February 8th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
“my greatest fear is not living up to my potential”
“no one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
both i think from Eleanor Roosavelt, what a smartie pants huh?
February 18th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Find a job that you enjoy and you will never work another day in your life.
March 16th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I accept I won’t cling to what I had in the past
But life’s a slippery slope regrets the steepest hill
Hope for the best, Plan for the worst, and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle.
Conor O’berst
Well everything that happens is supposed to be
Yeah It’s all predetermined you can’t change your destiny
Guess I’ll just keep moving someday maybe I’ll get to where I’m going
Conor O’berst
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it’s harder every time. You’ll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You’ll fight with your best friend. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you’ve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you’ll never get back.
Don’t be afraid that your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.”
- Wei Wu Wei
May 5th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. You think about that and the fact that it takes experience to get the thing that you want” - TheMomoZone on youtube
July 18th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Way up the line, there’s a good quote that the poster couldn’t remember whom to attribute: “Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgement.”
It’s from Robert F. Kennedy.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
you are a great champion,
when you ran, the ground shook
the sky opened and merge mortals parted
parted the way to victory
where you’ll meet me in the winner’s circle
I’ll put a blanket of flowers on your back
August 16th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
” Learn how to ask for what u like, or u will be forced to like what u get”
nemz
September 6th, 2007 at 7:15 am
“The art of reasoning is nothing more than language well arranged.”
-said to the chemist Lavoisier, not sure by exactly whom
“Nothing exists except atoms and space: everything else is opinion.”
-Democritus
“My complexity seems simpler than your simplicity.”
-Democritus
September 17th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
If you can’t be a good example,
then you’ll just have to be a
horrible warning.
- Catherine Aird
October 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pm
“So don’t you lock up something that you wanted to see fly. Hands are for shaking, not tying”
-Chris Cornell (Lyric from ‘Fell on black days’ by ‘Soundgarden’)
October 21st, 2007 at 5:17 am
‘If we’re F****d up, you’re to blame’
-Blink 182 (lyrics from ‘anthem part two’)
November 8th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
If you can look someone in the eye and know you are being real, then that is all that matters as you are being real to yourself,
Finding it hard to trust someone, but know I can be trusted, so will trust my own judgement in the end. x
November 26th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
“It is always darkest before the dawn”
This reminds me that whilst you may be going through pain and drama that it will not always stay dark, and in time things will be light again.
January 5th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
i’m so glad i found this place.i will visit daily
January 5th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
You have no idea how true that quote you have there is, thank you so much for sharing.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright
- TS Eliot
Some very beautiful word imagery that makes me take a deep breath and feel refreshed.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.
… Unknown Author
January 28th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen….unknown author.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Life is like a roller coaster, it starts off smooth and fast throwing you into the unknown. Then as you learn and experience it has its ups and downs,then at the end you look back and relise its actually not that bad.
Put it together from stuff ive heard and seen and experienced >.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” -Oscar Wilde
“The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.” -Charles Colton
“Some people show off their beauty because they want people to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.” -The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
February 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
“Draw from the past, Live in the present, Work for the future”
March 10th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
“When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future”
March 17th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
e.e cummings
March 19th, 2008 at 9:20 am
For the person who has broken someone’s heart !!!
Never Take Anyone For Granted….
Hold Your Love Ones Close To Your Heart…..
Because One Day You Might Realize That You’ve Lost A Diamond….
While You Where To Busy Collecting A Stone !!!
April 5th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I was looking for a site with some quotes to help cheer up someone I love. This is a great site. I got a few good quotes so I’ll give back with some of my own favourites.
‘Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass,
it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
- Author Unknown -
“Look, in my opinion the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what-have-you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.”
- J.K. Simmons, Juno -
“Dreams have no expiry date.”
- Author Unknown -
“I…I won’t fall in love with someone I can’t reach, but falling in love doesn’t end in loneliness, does it? I also know how happy it makes me when he calls my name, and I can be with him.”
- Sakura-chan from Me & My Brothers 3 -
April 16th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Someday I won’t remember who made me cry.
And I won’t remember who’s word tore me up inside.
I will only take with me the love of those who loved me.
And the warmth of those cared.
And the joy & the laughter that we shared.
- St. Atz
April 25th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
wow it’s been a long time since the last post. decided to contribute because this site really helped to cheer me up. anyway, just something i learned from my econ class… the market will always adjust itself to a balance, and the market functions the way it does because it is controlled by people. therefore, people will always strive for a balance eventually.
even if things aren’t so great right now, all will equal out someday. we just have to hope that day comes soon.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Aim for the sky. Even if you miss, you’ll land amoung the stars.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Finally, were you all like me, I would consider you so common that I would not care to associate with you. To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life and we are various enough to enjoy one another’s society; so let us be content.” -The Cowardly Lion (The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum)
“The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time. -Willie Tyler”
April 27th, 2008 at 4:40 am
A quote that always cheers me up at college:
“Did anyone watch Skins last night?”
Does anyone else think this?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
If someone was to ask me what my favourite time of day was I would truthfully say morning because no matter how shit your day has been things always look better in the morning.
Friends are a burden……so make them family instead! x
May 6th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
if u fall down, wouldn’t it make sence to get back up?
June 5th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Oh those were amazing, i feel so good now. Heres a few of mine.
1) Ships are safe in harbour, but thats not what ships are for
2) Only when its dark can you see the stars
3) Never wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to survive a hard one.
4) As we grow older, we become neither better or worse, but more like ourselves.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
“dance like no ones watching”
“lifes too short to be cool”
“the sky’s not the limit, theres footprints on the moon.”
“enjoy what you have while you have it, you’ll never know when it will be gone”
June 16th, 2008 at 12:36 am
“The past is a history, the future is a mystery, and the present is a gift. Thats why its called a present.”
- The Great Oogway(Kung foo panda)
June 18th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“love is the answer at least to most of the questions in my heart, like why are we here? and where do we go? and how come it’s so hard?”
-Jack Johnson.
I’m a strong believer in love, but I feel a bit broken at the moment…
thanks for the quotes
June 26th, 2008 at 3:50 am
These help me through some of my hard times…i hope it will do the same for anyone else out there…Sorry I don’t know the originator…
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us”
“The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose”
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it”
“The years teach much which the days never knew.”
June 27th, 2008 at 12:16 am
This kid on 43 things once said:
“Take risks. Your life isn’t yours till you risk it.”