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Favourite quotes?

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I'm planning to embroider something on to a bag to make it more interesting, and I'd like to do a quote, but having decided that, I'm stumped as to what to actually pick. This is where you come in, helpful readers! If you have a favourite quote (or line from a poem, song lyrics, etc), share it, and it will...well. It might end up on the bag of a girl up to several thousand miles away. What more could you possibly want?
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Re: Favourite quotes?

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"Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again."

I got the quote from a book, but I guess it is also a common Wiccan greeting as well. Not sure if that fits what type of quote you are looking for, but well, that's my favorite :P
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Re: Favourite quotes?

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I have a lot of quotes I believe I got from Enriana a long time ago, I think she was making icons from them or something. I pick through them frequently, though you may need to Google them for their source. And then I've been adding to the list as I find ones I like and remember to save them.

I have more elsewhere, but they are handwritten so I'll just post these for now. God knows it should be enough. But maybe a nice reference if you want to save and keep on hand.
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“It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
a dirty book is rarely dusty
character, like tea, shows its strength in hot water
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”
“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it”
No one can love and still be wise
I shall either find a way or make one
Blessed the misfortune that come singly
Laughing is not always a sign that the mind is at ease
Envy is blind
"brevi esse laboro obscurus fio" If I labor to be brief, I become obscure.
They who cross the sea change their sky, not their feelings.
che sará, sará - What will be, will be.
the arrogance of unbridled individualism - The Fountainhead

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ~Salman Rushdie
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." St. Augustine
"If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." Toni Morrison
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." Franz Kafka
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." Almansor - Heinrich Heine
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges

Flowers gathered in the morning, afternoon they blossom on, still are withered by the evening, you can be me when I'm gone. - Sandman
I think... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. - Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

1. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan”
2. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
3. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
4. “The giving of love is an education in itself”
5. “What you don't do can be a destructive force”
6. “Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
7. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
8. “Life is wasted on the living.”
9. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
10. “'This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'”
11. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
12. “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
13. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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15. “Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds”
16. “The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”
17. “In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.”
18. “He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that here wasn't an afterlife.”
19. “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
20. “My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
21. “Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
22. “You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
23. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
24. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
25. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
26. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
27. “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
28. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
29. “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
30. “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
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32. “Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”
33. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
34. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
35. “If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”
36. “Remember your humanity and forget the rest”
37. “You can't blame gravity for falling in love.”
38. “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
39. “Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”
40. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
41. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
42. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
43. “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
44. “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
45. “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one”
46. “Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”
47. “A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
48. “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
49. “The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become”
50. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
51. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work”
52. “The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it”
53. “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary”
54. “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen”
55. “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
56. “Buy land, they're not making it anymore”
57. “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
58. “We have the best government that money can buy.”
59. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
60. “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
61. “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
62. “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
63. “Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.”
64. “Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."”
65. “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
66. “Always do right the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
67. “Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
68. “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
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70. “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
71. “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
72. “Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them”
73. “Whatever you say, say it with conviction”
74. “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
75. “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
76. “Never do wrong when people are looking.”
77. “He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.”
78. “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
79. “I deal with temptation by yielding to it”
80. “I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way”
81. “I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again”
82. “Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”
83. “There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
84. “Be good and you will be lonesome”
85. “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
86. “Whatever you say, say it with conviction”
87. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
88. “Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
89. “If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary”
90. “Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired”
91. “Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired”
92. “If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
93. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”
94. “Virtue has never been as respectable as money”'
95. “There ought to be a room in every house to swear in”
96. “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates”
97. “There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice”
98. “All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime”
99. “We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
100. “It is wiser to find out than to suppose”
101. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination”
102. “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned”
103. You don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
104. “There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
105. “One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect”
106. “It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
107. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
108. “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
109. Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths.
110. “Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
111. “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
112. “I've never let my school interfere with my education.”
113. “Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled”
114. “One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself”
115. “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
116. “Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness”
117. “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
118. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
119. “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
120. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
121. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
122. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”
123. Think left and think right and think low and think high
124. “You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”
125. “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
126. “If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
127. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
128. “I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.”
129. “The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
130. “She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
131. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
132. “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
133. “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
134. “Everything popular is wrong.”
135. “Only the shallow know themselves.”
136. “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
137. “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
138. “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
139. “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
140. “Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.”
141. “The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
142. “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”
143. “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
144. “It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution”
145. “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
146. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
147. “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
148. “I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
149. “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
150. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
151. “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
152. “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
153. “Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
154. “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
155. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
156. “Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
157. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
158. “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
159. “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
160. “The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
161. “I can resist everything except temptation.”
162. “I live in fear of not being misunderstood”
163. “There is no sin except stupidity.”
164. “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
165. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
166. “I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
167. “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
168. I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
169. “This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
170. “To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
171. “It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”
172. “Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are”
173. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
174. “A true friend stabs you in the front.”
175. “Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
176. “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
177. “What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.”
178. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
179. “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
180. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
181. “Art never expresses anything but itself.”
182. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
183. “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
184. “Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex”
185. “I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
186. “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
187. “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
188. “Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
189. “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
190. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
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192. “The secret of life is in art.”
193. “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
194. “I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.”
195. through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence
196. “How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
197. “The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.”
198. “I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
199. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
200. “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
201. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
202. “If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
203. “Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
204. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
205. “Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
206. “I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”
207. “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
208. “Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”
209. “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”
210. “To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly”
211. “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too”
212. “It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce”
213. “Common sense is not so common.”
214. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
215. “Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”
216. “There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts”
217. “It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
218. “There are men who can think no deeper than a fact”
219. “Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.”
220. “Nature has always had more power than education”
221. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes”
222. “The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it”
223. “Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is”
224. “Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.”
225. “Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
226. “Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness”
227. “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
228. “Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”
229. “Men argue, nature acts”
230. “The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks”
231. “The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out”
232. “If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new”
233. “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
234. “Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them”
235. “There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions”
236. “Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist”
237. “God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
238. “The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool”
239. “Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
240. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need”
241. “To hold a pen is to be at war.”
242. “I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”
243. “A witty saying proves nothing.”
244. “A long dispute means both parties are wrong”
245. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
246. “Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
247. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
248. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
249. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
250. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
251. “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
252. “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
253. “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
254. “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
255. “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
256. “A jug fills drop by drop.”
257. “The tongue like a sharp knife; it kills without drawing blood.”
258. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
260. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
261. “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
262. “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
263. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
264. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
265. “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
266. “He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
267. “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
268. “Life is suffering.”
269. “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
270. “If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure”
271. “The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”
272. “Nothing is permanent.”
273. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
274. “There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
275. “Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.”
276. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
277. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we idn't get sick, and if we got sick,
78. at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
279. “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is n relation to everything else.”
280. “The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right indfulness and Right Concentration.”
281. “I am the miracle.”
282. “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”
283. “It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
284. “Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”
285. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
286. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
287. “Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.”
288. “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
289. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
290. “Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.”
291. “If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.”
292. We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
293. “Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
294. “Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
295. “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
296. “Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.”
297. “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”
298. “Again a different meaning has to be understood.”
299. “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds”
300. Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will.
301. “Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
302. The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage!
303. “This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
304. “You only lose what you cling to.”
305. “What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals”
306. “The heart that truly loves never forgets.”
307. “It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.”
308. “Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.”
309. “It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.”
310. “The hardest work of all is to do nothing.”
311. “Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red”
312. “Women are necessary evils”
313. “God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.”
314. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something”
315. “When you reach the top, keep climbing.”
316. “If at first you do succeed, try something harder”
317. “False friends are worse than open enemies”
318. “All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday”
319. “He who fears something gives it power over him.”
320. “If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive”
321. “Attack is the best form of defense”
322. “Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.”
323. “I will not be triumphed over.”
324. “All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.”
325. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
326. “There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.”
327. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
328. “I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.”
329. “The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
330. “Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
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332. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
333. “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
334. “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, that is happening.”
335. “"The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!”
336. “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
337. “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
338. “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
339. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
340. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
341. “Those who wish to sing always find a song.”
342. “He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword”
343. “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
344. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
345. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
346. “Nothing will work unless you do.”
347. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
348. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
349. “The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
350. “I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."”
351. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
352. “everything has rhythm. everything dances.”
353. Words mean more than what is set down on paper.
354. “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
355. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.”
356. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
357. “I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”
358. “i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare”
359. “In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”
360. “All great achievements require time.”
361. “The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”
362. “The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.”
363. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
364. “Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.”
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366. “Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
367. “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
368. “Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.”
369. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
370. “I believe that every person is born with talent.”
371. “The future is plump with promise.”
372. “There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
373. I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
374. “I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
375. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
376. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
377. “I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up."
378. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”
379. “Life loves the liver of it.”
380. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
381. I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
382. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled christmas tree lights.
383. “I'm not going anywhere. I came here to say something, and I'm not leaving until I'm finished.”
384. “Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.”
385. “A just war is better than an unjust peace”
386. “No man sees his shadow who faces the sun”
387. “Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.”
388. “Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.”
389. “The burdens that appear easiest to bear are those that are borne by others”
390. “Respect starts with yourself.”
391. “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday”
392. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
393. “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”
394. “When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.”
395. “Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom”
396. “The more things change, the more they stay the same”
397. “You have to walk up each step to get to the top of the staircase.”
398. “The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.”
399. “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck”
400. “He who fails to plan, plans to fail”
401. “A stumble may prevent a fall.”
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403. “All is fair in love and war.”
404. Do not look where you fell but where you slipped”
405. “Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
406. “If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there”
407. “A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.”
408. “A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.”
409. “The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather”
410. “It takes a long time to grow young.”
411. “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
412. “There is still no cure for the common birthday.”
413. “As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”
414. “A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer”
I love collecting quotes, so I'm curious to see what other people have come up with, what I can append to this list.
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Haha, I was thinking of doing something similar--I wanted to make a frilly, girly bag and stitch, "We deal in lead" on it. But I can't stitch that well.

I used to have a huge quotes file, but it got eaten. ;_; I have a large collection of NIN and Tool quotes, but it's entirely possible I'm the only one who cares. Most pithy things I know of are already on icons on OI--put Groucho Marx on your bag! heeeeee. I am not very good at adding to my current, more "literary" (haha) quotes file, which consists only of this:

Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all... alone.
X-Files, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I guess I had nothing to do that weekend, so I... fell in love.
North by Northwest

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
Pablo Neruda, "I do not love you"


And then several from His Dark Materials (I wrote some down the last time I read through them):

What you are, you'll know soon enough.

Pretending is easy. This way is hard, but much truer.

What is worth having is worth working for.

Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Memory's a poor thing to have.

But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.

You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!
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Most of the ones I have to offer are pretty common and silly, but I like them....

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with catsup.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Do you feel more like you do now than you did when you first came in?

If you have sex, you will get pregnant and die!

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. -- J. K. Rowling

The dark times make believers of us all, and belief can make cold hearts beat and make old longings rise up in hunger - hunger that wants to go home to its own. -- Donna Barr
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This quote always gets me thinking:

"When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."

Its from the song "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" by the band Stars.
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This is my favorite, I'm not a huge fan of 'inspirational' quotes, preferring funny, but this one inspires me without seeming to scold.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
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Ah, another one that I didn't think of last night:

Tell me, and I'll forget.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I'll understand.
-- Native American proverb
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I have a lot - although not nearly so many as I once had, two or three computers ago. A lot of these came from friends of mine, way, way back in the day when mailing lists ruled the land, long before the coming of the flist and the my space.

And while I don't know if all are what you, Jazzy, might want on your new bag - yanno, there's just no way to be sure. So here, have several. =D Spoiler'd to save space and stuffs.
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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."
- Oscar Levant


"...fighting for what you believe in is important and that, sometimes, the only thing that matters is that you *did*
fight." - Keith Topping (about 'Angel')



To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. --Theophile Gautier



"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis (1935)


Finally, a spam for me. No bigger or more active cocks, bigger breasts, no farm animals, no office equipment, just:
Got opinions? Get paid for them. --elnyross


You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. --Albert Einstein


When given the option and presuming equal efficacy, always carry the more phallic weapon." --Taselby



The Wave: Do you read Gandalf slash?
Ian McKellan: Well, I'm quite a fan of pornography. I think it's a very good idea. I think it stops people from going out and hurting each other.


I hate it when people grab up Shakespeare like a handful of sand, and throw him in my eyes. --Chickweed


Laughter really is the best medicine. (Well, I mean, probably behind antibiotics, but it's up there.) --Dorinda


There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama


Today's valuable lesson: Doesn't matter how true it is, doesn't matter how sad you and your protagonist are that the character's dead. As an epitaph, "eaten by ghouls" is a guaranteed mood-breaker. --truepenny


I was in New York with Maggie Smith recently, promoting a film, and we were asked about the Sanford Meisner Method school of acting, which is based on ruthless self-exploration. Maggie, in her unique way, said, 'Oh, we have that in England, too. We call it wanking. --Judi Dench


What is your original face, the one you had before your parents were born? --LZC


"The last beams of the evening sun set his shoulder length, strawberry-blond hair ablaze with vibrant red highlights."

... Nobody's hair should be ablaze in fanfic unless you are writing in the extensive "Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial" genre. --Yahtzee


When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will be taught to fly. --Frank Outlaw


To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.' -Ansel Adams


No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. -Zen Proverb


I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. --Charles Schulz


...I have to say that I find the general notion that it's wrong or bad or undesirable to be deeply affected by what you read, including, sometimes, in a negative or uncomfortable way, to be fundamentally antithetical to my entire philosophy of reading. One's overriding expectation of reading should not be to replicate the experience of sitting in a lukewarm bath. --harriet_spy


I was saying to someone at work today that even though I know people affected, it's all kind of unreal to me still -- surreal. I can't seem to feel anything about it all, which seems wrong. Maybe I just can't wrap my brain around it. And then I think, there you go, making it about you, and it's not, at all. --elynross, in the aftermath of Katrina


When the twins were 5, Thomas announced he was going to be a monster for Halloween. Patrick said he was going to be a princess. Thomas said he couldn't do that, because other kids would laugh at him. Patrick seemed puzzled. "Then I'll be Batman," he said. "What Makes People Gay, The Boston Globe"


Normal? Normal is just a setting on the dryer. -Colleen B.


When you choose to write in past tense, choose to go all the way. Revel in it. Be orgiastic....Or at least make sure that you don't leave one tenth of your verbs in present tense, as this may cause sudden outbreaks of violence in your readers. Most verbs have a past tense, which can be located with only a small amount of effort on your part. Think of it as research. --torch


...because they say, oh, you like Duncan. you must like perfect guys. Methos is better because he's not perfect. Sure, he can out-hack, out-think, and out-last all other immortals, but that's only because he's the best at everything there ever was. doesn't make him perfect. --Rachael


I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. --Oriah Mountain Dreamer


It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself. And if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. Oriah Mountain Dreamer


It doesn't interest me who you are or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. Oriah Mountain Dreamer


These are very sad people, and by "sad", I mean "dumb and should be cast into the outer darkness just to prevent the contamination of our world with their own perverse brand of pandemic irrationality... --wankprophet


We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift


You learn that most people are neither for you or against you. They are thinking of themselves. You learn that no matter what you do, some people aren't going to love you. A lesson that is at first troubling, then quite relaxing. - John W. Gardner


...people always want you to explain why you like slash. It's like explaining why you like men. Or women. Or chocolate ice cream. I'm not going to be able to explain liking women enough to turn a straight woman bi. I don't have that power. If I did, believe me, I would have used it extensively before now. --Merry


Today I received spam offering me 'Mortgages gone wild!'. Either the two worst kinds are breeding, or in a short time I will receive an offer of 'Low-interest co-eds!' --wal_lace
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Most of my favorite quotes are probably too macabre to be appropriately displayed in public on one's person - I'm not one for inspirational aphorisms - but Lepanto. Anything from Lepanto is good. It's short; Google it if you haven't read it.
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I too once kept books and files of favorite quotes, back in the days of .sig files on Usenet. Dunno where any of those lists are now.

Is it bad that one of my favorite quotes is Magic card flavor text?
"Light creates shadow; light destroys shadow. Such is the transience of darkness."

A quote from the TV show "Angel" that I used as a .sig for quite a long time:
"Ever since she ran me through with a two by four, things have been different."

The quote from "Angel" I WANTED to use, but decided not to for fear it would create the wrong impression...
"Of course, if you don't sign, we'll sue your ass off and kill your children. Just kidding, Donald. Nobody wants a lawsuit. "

A quote from DS9 that I used as a .sig for a long time (and to heck with the impression it created):
"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."

A quote that I remember from someone else's .sig file. I don't know the origin, and it bugs me.
"I'll get a life when somebody demonstrates it would be better than what I have now."
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Nope, I've found several Magic cards quoteworthy. Too bad I can't think of them right now. Or Warcraft DotA, some of the characters on there are funny (like Squee and Spleen).

Same with the Neopets TCG. The one for Obedience Broth goes "If you don't eat your Obedience Broth, you won't grow up AT ALL!"
And Space Faerie Circlet "One must never underestimate the power of shiny accessories."
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"Our existence deforms the universe; that's responsibility." - Delirium, sandman, neil gaiman

"this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart" - ee cummings
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Forgot a couple from one of my favorites, George Bernard Shaw:

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“I want to be all used up when I die.”
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