Favorite Quotes

If you're cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just wanna tell you something: There's a lot more of us ugly fuckers than you. - Frank Zappa

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.- Petrarch

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.- Salma Hayek

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.- A. Whitney Brown

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.- Paul Fussell

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.- Albert Einstein

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.- Gustave Flaubert

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.- Martin Luther King Jr.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.- W. C. Fields

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.- Confucius

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.- Plato

I really like these ones:

Rho1334 wrote:People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.- Salma Hayek

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.- A. Whitney Brown

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.- Confucius

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.- Plato

Whatever you can do or dream
you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it....(Goethe)

It is delightful to fall in love with
one person, just imagine what it is
like to fall in love with everyone.
(Eknath Easwaran)

I intend to feel good.......Dr Wayne W.Dyer

When you think thoughts that are in-spirit, they relfect
a vibrational alignement
that moves you in the right direction.
But if you begin observing
your thoughts and realize
that you're going in the wrong direction,
you can make a U-turn with New thoughts......Dr Wayne W.Dyer

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
robert frost

"What if all the worlds inside of your head? Just creations of your own....your devils & your Gods both the living & the dead...and you really are alone"
TRENT RESNOR

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results. "

jaded wrote:"What if all the worlds inside of your head? Just creations of your own....your devils & your Gods both the living & the dead...and you really are alone"
TRENT RESNOR

"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." - Spaceballs

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (John Muir)

jaded wrote:"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results. "

The place I work, used this quote before the explanation of their layoffs, and reorganization last May.

Ouch! I'm glad you survived the layoffs.

You can throw me if you wanna 'cause I'm a bone and I go 'Oop! Ip! Ip! Oop! Ip! Ip! Yeah!' - the song "7 and 7 is" by Love

melodiccolor wrote:Ouch! I'm glad you survived the layoffs.

Now all I have to do is survive the reorg.

Some of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes:

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."

"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence."

Nucky wrote:Some of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes:

"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence."

Absolutely! We can't go on pretending we have another planet to trash and fight over. Right now, this is the best we have and there is nothing else.
b.d.

"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe

Nucky wrote:Some of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes:

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."

"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence."

I love these, especially the second one. I had been thinking about this very issue early this morning in relation to the idea that war is nobel.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.- Reinhold Niebuhr

Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.- Eric A. Burns

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.-
Mahatma Gandhi

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.- Sun-tzu

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.- George Bernard Shaw

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.- Helen Keller

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?- Harry Shearer

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.- Aimee Mullins

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.- C. S. Lewis

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.- R. D. Laing

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.- Helen Keller

Indeed!!

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.- Aimee Mullins

I do believe Aimee Mullins is on to something here........

Forgiveness is the final form of love.- Reinhold Niebuhr

And the start of new adventures..............indeed!

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
-- Max de Pree

“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”- Unknown

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.-Charles M. Schulz

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. -Hugh Elliott

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.- Peter Ustinov

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. -William Shakespeare

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.- Lewis B. Smedes

Love Quotes
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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.- Julie Andrews

Rho1334 wrote:“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”- Unknown

I really like this one.

Have faith. Trust in a Universe that's endless and endlessly creating. Trust that the Creative Source of All knows exactly what it is doing..........Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
- Simone Weil

You can't be anything if you want to be everything - Unknown (saw it on a fortune cookie or something)

If at first you dont succeed try again

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth - Albert Einstein

If the sails on your ship have fallen and you are alone on the vast ocean, with all your might and strength, raise up your sails..steer your ship once more and let the winds of change take you towards the new horizon..